From 1960 to 1971, Dr. Eugene Saenger, a radiologist at the University of Cincinnati, led an experiment exposing 88 patients with cancer, poor, and black to whole body radiation.
By this time, the use of whole body treatment had already been discredited cancer treatment for the patients.
Patients were exposed, in the period of one hour, to the equivalent of about 20,000 x-rays worth of radiation.
A report in 1972 indicated that as many as a quarter of the patients died of radiation poisoning.
However, not just cancer patients were being experimented on, other radiation experiments during the time included a wide array of studies, involving things like feeding radioactive food to mentally disabled children or conscientious objectors, inserting radium rods into the noses of school children, deliberately releasing radioactive chemicals over U.S. and Canadian cities, measuring the health effects of radioactive fallout from nuclear bomb tests, injecting pregnant women and babies with radioactive chemicals, and irradiating the testicles of prison inmates, amongst other things.
