September 25, 2008

Man dies in drugs trial

Being diagnosed with testicular cancer is blow for any man, however the chances of surviving the disease are getting better all of the time. Nevertheless, when Gary Foster aged 27 was told that he had the disease with a sixty per cent chance of survival; he wanted to get all the help that he could.

The hospital University London Hospital (ULH) were running a trial of new chemotherapy drug TE23, which had been offered to him and following discussions the trail went ahead.

However, it seemed that there was a catalogue of errors and within a couple of days, Gary was dead. Initially a computer error was suspected and the Medical Research Council suspected that an overdose had occurred, but instead of making a phone call, they wrote a letter instead. This letter was opened two days after Gary had died.

Source [Telegraph]