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Show Page 20--THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Sunday, August 23. 1981 Mother BlamesScientists for Death of Son OAK RIDGE,Tenn. (UPI) — whichlittle could be done. But doctors said there was one Mary Sue Sexton says she “‘let her baby down’ by turning him over to government scientists hope — in a hospital 60 miles awayin the ‘atomiccity’’ of Oak Ridge where government doc- who she now believes used her sick 6-year-old son as a guinea tors were trying new methods of fighting cancer. pig in radiation, experiments for space research. What followed were three It has been nearly 13 nears years of various treatments in- since Dwayne Sexton died in a “cancer clinic’ at the government’s Oak Ridge Institute of volving radiation until finally the boy was bombarded with 353 rads of radioactive Cesium-137 A monthlater, on Dec. 29, 1968 Dwayne died of an infection. An article in Mother Jones magazine reported Thursday that the boy wasone of many‘‘guinea pigs’’ exposed to massive amounts of radiation at the cancer hospital from 1957 and 1974 so the National Aeronautics and Space Administration could Nuclear Studies but the memory is still vivid in his mother's tortured mind. Dwaynewas3 in 1965 when he was diagnosed as anemic byhis family physician. Doctors at a Robbins Tenn. hospital discovered, however that he had leukemia, a blood cancer that often attacks children and for study the effects of radiation in said from her homein Kingsport “Theysaid this would be the best space. Oak Ridge scientists said 186 chance they would have for him people were indeed subjected to to make a complete recovery from leukemia “I let my baby down,” she said The first experiment at Oak the experimental doses, with all but about a dozen reported dead. and NASA was given data from the tests to help it study the effectsof radiation on astronauts But scientists denied NASA had any hand in the treatment — specifically the dosage of radiation — given patients at the clinic Mrs. Sexton now 40, said she put her faith in the Oak Ridge doctorsatthe time but nowshe's sorry she did “We weretold they hadthis experiment they would like to try, since Dwaynie wasin his very early stages of leukemia” she Ridge involved a bone marrow transplant. Bone marrow — extracted from Dwayne using 17 punctures — was subjected to radiation filtered and injected into Mrs. Sexton. The solution was then drained from the woman and re-injected into her son “They were hoping her body would build up antibodies which would fight leukemia cells " said Howard Rosenberg who researched the case for 18 Uver three hours and 38 months and authored the Mother Jones article. “It was totally untried treatment.” When that failed, doctors turned to chemotherapy. The leukemia wentinto several remissons but Dwayne had a relapse in 1968, He was taken back to the Oak Ridge ‘cancer radiation The Mother Jones article claims Dwayne died a month later because the Oak Ridge hospital."* scientists not only had used an minutes, Dwayne was given 353 rads of Cesium-137 — a dose that somenuclear scientists say is an abnormally high amount of unproven irradiated bone marrow transplant, but also immersed his body in what one scientist called a ‘‘sea of radiation.” Inside a specially designed chamberatthe hospital. Dwayne lay in an aluminum bed. Eight tubes with lead protective coverings sprayed gaseous radiation into the room. A $65,000 “umbilical cord” was strapped around his waist to Dr. Clarence Lushbaugh an monitor his body's response to Oak Ridge cancer researcher who gathered data from the experiments for NASA. said physi- the radiation. The surveillance cians — who expected the boyto die anyway — saw nothing wrong with the treatmentgiven the boy. equipment was provided by the space agency. "Businessman Assists French Family LOS ANGELES (UPI) — A French family mugged and robbed of their money by two black youths continued their tour of the United States this weekend thanks to a $900 gift from a black businessman who was humiliated by the attack. “It was a humiliating thing because these kids were black and I happen to be black also,” said Jim Porter, president of U.S. Engineering Corp., a firm that supplies engineers and technical workers on a temporarybasis. “T feelit's tragic and embarrassing for black people whenthingslike this happen. What better gesture than have a black person give them their money back." he ‘One-Armed Bandits’ To Go Aboard Jetliners SINGAPORE (UPI) — Las Vegasstyle slot machines will take to the air for the first time aboard a commercial jet Tuesday in a move that may make flying gambling as commonasin-flight movies, Singapore Airlines said Fridav. An airline spokesmansaid the longplanned installation of the specially designed lightweight ‘‘one-armed bandits” was completed and would be ready for passengers on Tuesday's flight 8Q2 leaving the island republic for San Francisco. The seven battery-operated machineswill be barred to those under 18 and supervised by personnel of the U.S.-based Mark X Corporation. the spokesmansaid. “The gambling machines arepart of our in-flight entertainment package,” he said. “They could become as popular as inflight movies.” Ifa two-monthtrial onthe longcrossPacific flights to the United States is successful, the machineswill be installed onall 15 ofthe airline’s jumbojets flying to a variety of destinations, the spokesmansaid. Diamond Ear Appeal said. Ives Bretonniere. his wife. Jeanine, and four young children were driving through the Watts area Wednesday when they were attacked. The youths reached into the stopped car and grabbed Mrs. Bretonniere’s purse. 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