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Thomas Stevens, Albert's son, always filled out medical forms indicating that there was a "history of cancer" in his family because his father had been led to believe that the "treatment" for his cancer had worked. [1] Stevens received approximately 6400 rem (64 Sv) in the 20 years after his injection, or about 300 rem (3 Sv) per year. [1]
Survival time Age at death Cause of death Weight of injected Pu-239 (mg) HP-12, 55-year-old man 1945 1953 8 years 63 Heart failure 4.7 CHI-1, 68-year-old man 1945 1945 5 months 68 Cancer of chin, lungs 6.5 CAL-1, 58-year-old man 1945 1966 20.7 years 79 Heart disease 0.75 + 0.2 (Pu-238) HP-1, 67-year-old man 1945 1960 14.2 years 81 Bronchopneumonia
Albert Stevens, a man misdiagnosed with stomach cancer, received "treatment" for his "cancer" at the U.C. San Francisco Medical Center in 1945. Dr. Joseph Gilbert Hamilton, a Manhattan Project doctor in charge of the human experiments in California, [75] had Stevens injected with Pu-238 and Pu-239 without informed consent.
Nonfatal dose to Albert Stevens spread over ≈21 years, due to a 1945 plutonium injection experiment by doctors working on the secret Manhattan Project. [ 60 ] [ a ] Dose rate examples
The scandal first came to public attention in a newsletter called Science Trends in 1976 and in Mother Jones magazine in 1981. Mother Jones reporter Howard Rosenburg used the Freedom of Information Act to gather hundreds of documents to investigate total radiation studies which were done at the Oak Ridge Institute for Nuclear Studies (now the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education).
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Albert Stevens was a patient who was the subject of an experiment on radiation exposure. Albert Stevens may also refer to: Albert Leo Stevens (1873–1944), ...