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Thread: Should underage cancer patients be forced to undergo chemotherapy?

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    Default Should underage cancer patients be forced to undergo chemotherapy?

    If their parents and them want to try "alternative" treatments.

    Here is a story of a 17 year old cancer patient who does not want chemotherapy but rather alternative treatments, and her mother supported her decision, but the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled that she must continue undergoing chemo and took her from her mother.

    She has an 85% chance of survival with chemo according to doctors, and a 0% chance of survival without it.

    I agree with the decision.

    http://www.cbsnews.com/news/court-he...cer-treatment/

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    If it means a 85% chance of survival if she undergo chemotherapy and 0 with alternatives, yes I believe the courts have every right to force chemotherapy on the girl.

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    Yes she should if its the best option at survival.

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    I completely support the alternative healing methods. Chemotherapy is just part of the terrible pharmacy business.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lithium View Post
    I completely support the alternative healing methods. Chemotherapy is just part of the terrible pharmacy business.
    Is there evidence of their success?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sikeliot View Post
    If their parents and them want to try "alternative" treatments.

    Here is a story of a 17 year old cancer patient who does not want chemotherapy but rather alternative treatments, and her mother supported her decision, but the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled that she must continue undergoing chemo and took her from her mother.

    She has an 85% chance of survival with chemo according to doctors, and a 0% chance of survival without it.

    I agree with the decision.

    http://www.cbsnews.com/news/court-he...cer-treatment/
    No, I don't think anyone who is old enough to think (i.e. not a baby or toddler) should have medical "care" forced on them.

    If I got cancer, I wouldn't try to treat it at all, and just as it would be unjust to force me as an adult to treat it, it's unjust to force a minor to get treated if they don't want to.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sikeliot View Post
    Is there evidence of their success?
    There's not really a lot of evidence of the success of conventional medical treatments for cancer, either

    http://thefreethoughtproject.com/che...ncer-patients/

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    The State is not the parent, the parent is the parent. The State should not force children to subject themselves to a therapy they might not agree with. Even more so since chemo doesn't always work (and actually kills some patients) and forcing them would be state support to pharmaceutical companies and a violent of peoples' human rights. To put it bluntly: it's akin to ordering a person to be tortured and an innocent person at that. And maybe, when we support the latest research, chemo for leukemia patients might actually be obsolete.



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