Chester M. Southam: Human Experimentation with Live Cancer Cells

Chester M. Southam was an immunologist and oncologist who was caught injecting people with live cancer cells from the 1950s to 1960s. His reasoning behind injecting patients with cancer was to see if the patients' immune systems would reject the cancer cells or if they would grow. Afterward, he went on to become the American Association for Cancer Research president.Show more

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