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Albert Stevens was part of an experiment where he was injected with radioactive plutonium without his knowledge, after being told he had cancer, only for doctors to discover he never had the disease.

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Albert Stevens was part of an experiment where he was injected with radioactive plutonium without his knowledge, after being told he had cancer, only for doctors to discover he never had the disease.

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