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Report: Govt Settles Radiation Suit
.c The Associated Press
Families of Cancer Patients Who Say They Were Unknowingly Subjected To
Military-Sponsored Radiation Treatments at Cincinnati Hospital Reach $5
Million Settlement, Newspaper Reports
CINCINNATI (AP) -- Families of 90 cancer patients who allege their relatives
were unknowingly subjected to military-sponsored radiation experiments have
reached a proposed $5 million settlement, The Cincinnati Enquirer reported
Saturday.
The lawsuit, filed five years ago, alleged terminally ill cancer patients
who sought treatment at Cincinnati General Hospital between 1960 and 1971
were given full-body and partial-body doses of radiation researchers could
measure the effects. The facility is now known as University Hospital.
The agreement was reached Friday when the last surviving patient from the
study agreed to its terms.
The suit -- which named the hospital and the federal government among
defendants -- contended many of the patients' deaths were hastened by the
treatment. Researchers in the 11-year study defended their actions as
attempts to cure or ease pain in the earliest days of radiation therapy.
The government was included in the suit because the Defense Department paid
$651,000 for the test results to learn about the effects of radiation
exposure.
On Friday, the settlement earned the approval of Donna White Christy, the
study's sole survivor, who was treated for cancer at the hospital when she
was a child.
Robert Newman, an attorney for about 50 of the plaintiffs, said the
settlement will amount to about $50,000 for each family.
Terms also include an apology from the government and a memorial plaque to
be placed on the University of Cincinnati campus listing the patients' names.
U.S. District Judge Sandra Beckwith will be asked to sign the agreement on
Monday.
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