Werner Bezwoda

A South African researcher who reported that high-dose chemotherapy improved survival in breast cancer. An external audit performed by oncologists R. Weiss and R. Beberidge found that only 62 patients—of the reported 151 patients—had actually been treated; none had been randomized; the data was thus deemed fraudulent

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She writes: "In March 2000, Werner Bezwoda, a cancer researcher at South Africa's Witwatersrand University, was fired after conducting medical experiments involving very high doses of chemotherapy on black breast-cancer patients, possibly without their knowledge or consent.

Do Africans fear Western medicine? Thomas Land on the outbreak of polio in northern Nigeria and how past medical experiments in Africa have made some Africans distrustful of Western medicine

Officials at Johannesburg's University of Witwatersrand announced that it is investigating Professor Werner Bezwoda for scientific misconduct for misrepresenting the study's results.