With the babyish man surrounded by the report who is running from forced chemotherapy I wonder who is right?
Doesn't chemo kill cells & put the person through tremedous stress? Is within any proof that a person's chances are better if they use chemo? I am really curious about whether this family is right & if this boy is going to make well that he can heal with out chemo or if chemo is so helpful that this people is not understanding how much better off this boy would be....Chemo or no chemo, which way is better & why?
his case, chemo has a better than 90% chance of if truth be told curing him. Or at least it did have when he had the unproved first run of chemo. It shrank the tumor, although since he's been doing the herb/diet thing it has since regrown to at lowest possible the original size. Nobody said chemo was pleasant, but yes, in some cases it does bring in that big a difference. Before chemo, most kids with leukemia died. Now most of them, 90 percent or better survive. The boy has a learning disability, and can't even read. What he know is what his parents and the man who heads up that herb/Indian whatever healing group enjoy told him. The man was already in trouble with the ruling once for fraud involving herbal healing. There is plenty of proof that chemo can help with Hodgkin's Lymphoma. There is no evidence the herb would work. The boy is no doubt scared, but he is in no position to generate any kind of informed decision. If he doesn't resume the chemo soon though, it just won't business. The sad thing is, it may already be too late. If you ask me, it's surrounded by the same category as the case of the mom praying for her daughter to be healed from Diabetes Type 1. She thought it be the result of some sin, and praying would heal it. Her daughter died, and now her parents are both on trial for murder. Your kids trust you to have better sense than that. They should know how to. Source(s): nurse
The child and his parents are claiming that chemotherapy is forbidden by their religion - a religion lead by a fraud who claims to be a Native American healer (although he's not native American at all) and a religion where a 13 year old child can be a drug man and an elder - this is what they have told this child he is; he can't even read.
With chemo he has something like a 95% adjectives of surviving; without it he will almost certainly die.
The religion promises them that the 'natural' cures they provide have a 100% guarantee of curing the child's cancer.
BUT - it's important to know that the clan only decided not to go ahead beside chemo after allowing the first round of chemo treatment, which was very rough on the boy - chemo for lymphoma is very tough.
ould come across the child and his parents became frightened and refused more chemo - the child's aunt died of cancer despite chemo, and they seem to enjoy been persuaded that it was the chemo that kill her.
So it appears to have been fear, not religion, that initially made them vote 'no more chemo'; and then the nutjobs with their promises of guaranteed cures got hold of them. Even one of the lawyer assigned to the family said he would no longer acknowledge religion as a justification for the child's decision.
I just hope he and his mother are found before her actions eradicate him - and they will if she's not stopped.
I can only speak from my own experience, But I have Hodgkin's Lymphoma (the same cancer the boy has) I am 20 years matured and the cancer was spread through nearly all of my lymph nodes as well as my spleen. After 4 months of chemotherapy I of late got another scan to check the progress. Nearly all of the cancer is gone, I need 2 more months of chemo and the doctor think I'll be done.
There are tons of lousy side affects from chemo and sometimes I feel like skipping my appointments, but looking at the alternative I'm sure I can handle two more months of the stuff. I'm sure that chemo isn't the individual way to beat cancer but so far it's doing the best job.
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his case, chemo has a better than 90% chance of if truth be told curing him. Or at least it did have when he had the unproved first run of chemo. It shrank the tumor, although since he's been doing the herb/diet thing it has since regrown to at lowest possible the original size. Nobody said chemo was pleasant, but yes, in some cases it does bring in that big a difference. Before chemo, most kids with leukemia died. Now most of them, 90 percent or better survive. The boy has a learning disability, and can't even read. What he know is what his parents and the man who heads up that herb/Indian whatever healing group enjoy told him. The man was already in trouble with the ruling once for fraud involving herbal healing. There is plenty of proof that chemo can help with Hodgkin's Lymphoma. There is no evidence the herb would work. The boy is no doubt scared, but he is in no position to generate any kind of informed decision. If he doesn't resume the chemo soon though, it just won't business. The sad thing is, it may already be too late. If you ask me, it's surrounded by the same category as the case of the mom praying for her daughter to be healed from Diabetes Type 1. She thought it be the result of some sin, and praying would heal it. Her daughter died, and now her parents are both on trial for murder. Your kids trust you to have better sense than that. They should know how to. Source(s): nurse
The child and his parents are claiming that chemotherapy is forbidden by their religion - a religion lead by a fraud who claims to be a Native American healer (although he's not native American at all) and a religion where a 13 year old child can be a drug man and an elder - this is what they have told this child he is; he can't even read.
With chemo he has something like a 95% adjectives of surviving; without it he will almost certainly die.
The religion promises them that the 'natural' cures they provide have a 100% guarantee of curing the child's cancer.
BUT - it's important to know that the clan only decided not to go ahead beside chemo after allowing the first round of chemo treatment, which was very rough on the boy - chemo for lymphoma is very tough.
ould come across the child and his parents became frightened and refused more chemo - the child's aunt died of cancer despite chemo, and they seem to enjoy been persuaded that it was the chemo that kill her.
So it appears to have been fear, not religion, that initially made them vote 'no more chemo'; and then the nutjobs with their promises of guaranteed cures got hold of them. Even one of the lawyer assigned to the family said he would no longer acknowledge religion as a justification for the child's decision.
I just hope he and his mother are found before her actions eradicate him - and they will if she's not stopped.
I can only speak from my own experience, But I have Hodgkin's Lymphoma (the same cancer the boy has) I am 20 years matured and the cancer was spread through nearly all of my lymph nodes as well as my spleen. After 4 months of chemotherapy I of late got another scan to check the progress. Nearly all of the cancer is gone, I need 2 more months of chemo and the doctor think I'll be done.
There are tons of lousy side affects from chemo and sometimes I feel like skipping my appointments, but looking at the alternative I'm sure I can handle two more months of the stuff. I'm sure that chemo isn't the individual way to beat cancer but so far it's doing the best job.
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