Cancer patient killed in drug trial overdose - The Sunday Times 21st September 2008

Monday, September 22, 2008

A 27-YEAR-OLD man has died in a government-funded medical trial, in which at least two other patients were given overdoses. Gary Foster, a graphic designer who was planning to get married this month, was on seven occasions given double the amount of chemotherapy he should have been prescribed. His mother, Colleen Foster, said: “Gary was slowly poisoned to death.”

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