| Researchers said that consent had been given orally, but was not
documented. They felt that documentation was unnecessary because it was customary to
undertake much more dangerous medical procedures without the use of consent forms. Further, patients were not told that they would receive cancer cells because, in
the view of the investigators, this would frighten the patients unnecessarily.
Investigators defended this view on the basis that they had good cause to predict that the
cancer cells were going to be rejected. |
