Background
Saenger, Eugene Lange was born on March 5, 1917 in Cincinnati. Son of Eugene and Therese (Lange) Saenger.
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Saenger, Eugene Lange was born on March 5, 1917 in Cincinnati. Son of Eugene and Therese (Lange) Saenger.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard University, 1938; Doctor of Medicine, University Cincinnati, 1942.
A graduate of Harvard University, Saenger was a pioneer in radiation research and nuclear medicine. He taught at the University of Cincinnati for more than thirty years. From 1960 until 1971, Doctor Eugene Saenger, a radiologist at the University of Cincinnati, led an experiment exposing 88 cancer patients, poor and mostly black, to whole body radiation, even though this sort of treatment had already been pretty well discredited for the types of cancer these patients had.
They were not asked to sign consent forms, nor were they told the Pentagon funded the study.
They were simply told they would be getting a treatment that might help them. Patients were exposed, in the period of one hour, to the equivalent of about 20,000 x-rays worth of radiation.
Nausea, vomiting, severe stomach pain, loss of appetite, and mental confusion were the results. A report in 1972 indicated that as many as a quarter of the patients died of radiation poisoning.
In 1994, the families of the patients sued Saenger, the University of Cincinnati, and the federal government.
Trustee Cincinnati Community Chest and Council, 1964-1970. Served to major Medical Corps United States Army, 1953-1955. Member Society Medical Decision Making (president, co-founder 1979-1980), National Council Radiation Protection (honorary member), Queen City Club, Literary Club (Cincinnati), Cosmos Club (Washington), Optimists Club.
Married Sue Reis, June 18, 1941 (deceased). Children: Katherine Saenger Soodek (deceased), Eugene Lange.
