A Teenager Battles The State Over His Choice Of Medical Treatment For HIS Cance

Modern medicine would never consent to any herbal natural remedy, why you ask the FDA for bids it, why again, easy answer money. Did you know that the FDA is made up of get this ex-pharmaceutical company CEOs, hmmmm. I totally agree that how one chooses to treat an illness is purely personal and NO outside agency has the right to step in. I do not want the government on my sick bed or in my bedroom for any reason

Hoxsey himself traced the invention of the treatment to his great-grandfather

In India we have no such qualms about what treatment or no treatment anyone is getting or seeking. Inffact recently I camer across a case where the child's wbc count has become so low taht Doctor gave him three months to live unless treated properly. we all had decide to collect donations for him and even pay from our own pocket for the treatment when suddenly the father ofd the child got him discharged from the hospital and took him to his village saying he will rather pray to god for his son's life and he has no money to get him treated. we could not stop him from going and I don't know what happened to that child afterwards.

It's so hard to call. It's a lot easier to sit here and say they should just take him and do it because he's too young to realize the consequences, etc. And the survival rate for this is very high. BUT.. in the same sense where does it stop? If teens and their parents can't make a choice, then how long before the government steps in and makes decisions for adults, or the elderly? I honestly can't say what I think for sure because I see and understand both sides.

I think at 16 if you're going through something like that, you might quickly become more mature than a lot of 18 year olds. I don't think someone should be forced to go through chemo if they don't want the treatment.

i hope he made the right choice.but being 16 is rough age to makw a big dicision like that.i wish him luck

Honestly I think if the parents are ok with it there should not be a problem. The problem with social Services is they think they can run our lives and that is not right. I really hope he can get the treatment HE wants.

I certainly don't agree with the state getting involved, who gives them the right to tell someone, even a teenage how much they should suffer (chemo isn't fun). I understand he's a minor but he is old enough to understand the consequences of his decisions. I'm sure he will challenge the courts again and I hope he won. I'm in a situation as an adult where I've had to fight with my insurance company for alternative medicine treatment since the convential medicine doctor states that the numbers on my blood results are not bad enough despite the severe symptoms. I wish all the luck to this teenager.

The laws are out there to protect the children. Adults tend to see the big picture of issues where teenagers think they know everything and are difficult to persuade otherwise. This type of lymphoma has a high cure-rate so I think the courts are right in this case. In a case where a child has been suffering from instance after instance of cancer and the child says, "Enough already!" and the parents selfishly want to hang on and refuse to see how much pain and suffering their child has been in, then I say the child should have the right to decide - but that too could either go to the courts or the child's plea could be ignored by the docs.

He is 16, and obviously his parents support his decision. So I don't see why the courts should have anything to do with whether he gets chemo or not. There is no way a doctor can possibly know whether or not chemo will cure him- with most cancers, chemo is not a cure. It mostly just bides times.. holds off the inevitable. And it's not a pleasant treatment for cancer, either. If taking herbal remedies is better for him health wise, and emotionally, and if his parents are completely supportive of his decision, I think the courts need to keep out of it.

a 16 yr old can already decide for himself. they should've let him made his choice of taking herbal remedy instead.

No, I don't believe he should have been able to make that decision. A teenager lacks the cognitive function and the life experiences to make such a huge decision. Yes, in two years he would have been able to do it, but there is a lot of maturation that happens in those two years. Most people have made choices when they were teenagers that they regret now. Most of those wouldn't kill us, if we changed our minds later. If this young man's alternative treatment doesn't work, he'll die, and he'll have no opportunity to second guess himself.

at the age of 16 I think that it is his choice if he wants to go through the hell of chemo or radiation. I do not believe that anyone should have the right to tell someone else what they have to go through, what kinds of medications, or therapy that they have to go through. I guess that what I am saying is no I do not agree with this.

ya i agree.

If this is something his parents are also in agreement with, then I don't think there should be any issue. I think choosing treatment for a disease is a very personal decision. I sometimes think our government is way too intrusive.

It's messed up that people under the age of 18, have no rights. Yet, if you're 16 and work, you have to pay taxes. Basically, taxation without representation. Basically, what we fought England over, when we earned our independence. I just think that it's messed up that minors have to suffer this way.

If this is the best way to make him well again then I agree that the court intervended.He is 16 and Im sure he values what he believes in.But getting him well again is the main purpose here and I think what ever way the hospitial feel is the best way to do that should be used.