I think the difference here is that the course of treatment that the parents have selected is one that has very little scientific data to back it up, where as the results of chemo, although not 100%, can be backed up with numbers from studies.
You are correct that parents decide to stop treatment everyday for their kids with serious cancer, but honestly, Hodgkin's is a very survivable cancer with conventional medicine, unless the disease was allowed to progress to stage 3 or 4. If the parents decide to discontinue conventional treatments the disease may progress to the point that even conventional treatments are not going to help. Why take that risk? -----Original Message----- From: Deanna Schneider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 10:25 AM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Schiavo II? This makes no sense. Every day parents decide to discontinue treatment for kids with serious cancers. What makes this so different? Just the fact that he's going with some alternate treatment option instead of saying, "no more treatment, I'd prefer to just die?" On 7/13/06, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A court has decided that his parents decision is equivalent to neglect > and is ordering their son to get the court's recommended treatment. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/message.cfm/forumid:5/messageid:211054 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
