Comments on: Parents Of Boy With Cancer Agree To Chemo

Judge Says 13-Year-Old Who Fled Treatment With Mother Can Stay With Parents

[orinfagel]

nofoolling: Would you please post your source for the stat you gave on "...220,000 people die in the hospital each year..." and, whether all of those loses are due to hospital neglect or some other cause? That would be very helpful for the reader; especially if it is a peer reviewed scientific study. Anxiously awaiting your report.

[nofoolling]

I'm sure most of us would probably "agree" if your choices were jail or losing custody of your child.

What a raw deal for all Americans that this judge and many others would force you to take treatment from the good folks at the American Malpractice Association.

Healing (if you're lucky) for dollars, if you're not lucky it still costs the same, whether you end up one of their failure statistics or not.

They said this kind of cancer has a successful cure rate of 90%. Yah, if they manage to give you the right dosage, aren't mistaken for a bum (or simply uninsured) and thrown to the curb, or they don't manage to take out your brain by mistake.

220,000 people die in the hospital each year, of an illness they didn't have before they went there.

[debinok1]

TUESDAY, May 26 (HealthDay News) -- People who survived cancer as children face a high lifelong risk for developing another cancer, a new study has found.


A study that appears online May 26 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute went further than earlier studies by following people from birth through age 79. The researchers analyzed data on more than 47,000 people who had been diagnosed with cancer before the age of 20.


The incidence of new cancers found by the analysis was higher than expected, the researchers said.


They found that 1,180 second primary cancers were diagnosed in 1,088 of the people who'd survived a childhood cancer. The brain was the most common site for second primary cancers.


The risk of second primary cancers was significantly higher in men than in women, the researchers reported.


"This study quantified long-term temporal patterns of increased risk of cancer at specific sites in survivors of childhood cancer," wrote Dr. Jorgen H. Olsen, of the Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Center, and colleagues. "The results may be useful in the screening and care of these individuals."

[Brandywine33]

Well I pray that they are making the right decision and that it works for them. I agree with the boy that he wants people and the media to just leave him alone. May God be with them during these chemotherapy treatments. I've experienced them myself, and will never choose to do so again.

[eightsigma]

" THINK IT THROUGH"
Posted by philabias at 7:00 PM : May 26, 2009

I usually assume anything typed in all caps is completely false. So your post demonstrates that Obama's choice for the supreme court will save the boy's life.

[philabias]

i SAID IT BEFOR AND I WILL SAY IT AGAIN. JUST AN OTHER OUT OF CONTROL JUDGE THAT WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD FROM THE BENCH. THIS DECISION IS TO BE MADE BY THE FAMILY AND ONLY THE FAMILY
REMEBER FOLKS OBAMAS NEW CHIOCE FOR THE HIGH COURT THINKS THAT THE JUDGES SHOULD CREATE POLICY FROM THE BENCH,LAWYERS WANT ALL THINGS THERE WAY AND ONLY THERE WAY.THINK IT THROUGH

[forrestlayne]

We had more than enough time when medical science was advanced enough to diagnose this type of cancer - but not advanced enough to treat it - to know what the death rate is without chemo - 95% - with every root, vegetable, herbal treatment a desperate family could lay their hands on - 95%.

Then they tried chemo - and instead of 5% living, 90% lived! Pretty obvious which treatments worked and which did not.
Posted by SusanStoHelit at 6:36 PM : May 26, 2009

source please

[forrestlayne]

Chemo cures this cancer - fast and effectively.
Posted by SusanStoHelit at 6:33 PM : May 26, 2009

THERE IS NO CURE FOR CANCER

Read the article- the chemo has a 90% chance of putting this type of cancer into remission for 5 years. That means it will be back no later than when the boy is 18. My 17 year old friend with luekemia was in remission 4 years - now it is more and harder chemo. The family is looking for alternatives - chemo is killing him just like the cancer is.

[SusanStoHelit]

We had more than enough time when medical science was advanced enough to diagnose this type of cancer - but not advanced enough to treat it - to know what the death rate is without chemo - 95% - with every root, vegetable, herbal treatment a desperate family could lay their hands on - 95%.

Then they tried chemo - and instead of 5% living, 90% lived! Pretty obvious which treatments worked and which did not.

[SusanStoHelit]

Likely to die means a 95% chance - that's the stats. 90% cure rate, without treatment 95% dead children.

People like talking alternatives - but they don't work. In fact - from all I've seen, seems like they only work that 5% of the time the person would have survived anyway.

Chemo cures this cancer - fast and effectively. Nothing else has any kind of track record - just lots of dead people who try them. I know someone who had a far worse cancer than this one - not nearly as curable. He's still alive because he went for treatment - and he's since gotten married and had a son.

These people don't get it - there is no gentle alternative - only death - and a painful one. The X-rays prove it - tumor shrank after the first round of chemo, since they changed to alternative treatments, it's grown to be larger than when they first started. That shows exactly how effective alternative treatment is.