Comments:Court rules teen must take chemotherapy
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is it good hogkins or bad hogkins?
This is why when and if there is real environmental selection, the human race is doomed. (at least the Americans) We're keeping these intellectually-challenged people alive with chemo, diabetes medicaion and tummy tucks. lol —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 62.231.148.190 (talk • contribs) 12:09, 18 May 2009
- Right, and the nations, who can't keep themselves alive now, will be so much better off. --SVTCobra 00:21, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
This is rediculas
editThis is America, people can not be forced into treatment.--CnrFallon (talk) 19:43, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
- Looks like he just did. Mike Halterman (talk) 00:12, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
- He is a child. --SVTCobra 00:21, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
- He is forced to live against his and his parents wish. -Funicode (talk) 23:23, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
Here we have a child with a very curable malignancy who has a treatment that is almost certain to cure him. (As stated in the article, Hodgkins lymphoma is very frequently curable with appropriate treatment). If the child does not want chemotherapy, so what? It is needed to prevent his death, which is almost certain without chemotherapy. I could understand the and child's resistance to chemotherapy more if he had an incurable cancer, such as glioblastoma multiforme or advanced rhabdomyosarcoma, where chemotherapy would be unlikely to be life-saving, rather simply extending the childs life. Immunize (talk) 21:37, 19 February 2010 (UTC)