Moffitt Cancer Center discovers patient consent was falsified for study

By Richard Martin, Times Staff Writer Wednesday, August 25, 2010 TAMPA — The H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center on Wednesday revealed that it is investigating whether hundreds of patient signatures were falsified on documents enrolling them in the hospital’s largest cancer research study. Dr. William Dalton, Moffitt’s president and CEO, said that an employee admitted falsifying a patient signature on …