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Today we have varied responses to the MPR News feature: Family lands in court over son's cancer treatment:
I am a Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma survivor
When I was 19, I was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. I underwent surgery and 60 treatments of radiation.
Twenty years later, I underwent surgery to correct a back issue. During the surgery, the surgeons found scar tissue that had wrapped around arteries that if not taken care of would have killed me within 2 years, and no one would know why. According to them, this scarring was a result of the radiation.
After study of alternative treatments, I would not use conventional medicine to cure cancer should it return. I would use nutrition therapies before any chemo or radiation.
Joseph Muehlbauer
Saint Cloud, Minn.
Parents have medical authority
Chemotherapy kills healthy brain cells! These parents know best!
In this case the parents should have the authority and they legally have the right to make healthy choices for their child! Chemotherapy kills more people then it saves and it is clearly not the right treatment for the child. In my opinion it is a dangerous and severely out dated cancer treatment. The use of ozone therapies and other natural alternatives would be much better solutions.
In short these parents love their child more then any outside person, and have the right to do what they feel is best for their child.
Cristiana Joy
Phoenix, Ariz.
The war on cancer is lost
The first precept of Hippocratic Oath that all medical doctors swear to is: "First do no harm."
The irony of all is the fact that even if the boy's cancer goes into remission from the chemotherapy - as the stats are now demonstrating - in adulthood he will succumb to a secondary and intractable cancer that will not respond to treatment.
Croft Woodruff
Coquitlam, B.C.
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