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Boy, 11, Refuses Cancer Treatments
May 14, 2008, 11:01 AM PDT
ONTARIO, Canada -- An 11-year-old Ontario boy who was forced to continue chemotherapy treatments against his wishes will be returned to his family.The boy's parents, who were in a Hamilton courtroom Tuesday, reached an agreement with the Children's Aid Society, stating that the boy will go home at the end of his current round of chemotherapy. The boy's father and stepmother lost custody when they tried to refuse any further painful treatments. Doctors said the boy would die within six months without chemotherapy. The boy was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia when he was seven. After enduring his first tough experiences with chemotherapy his cancer went into remission, but returned earlier this year. When told last week that he'd need to undergo more chemo he refused and his father decided they would try some alternative therapies. But medical officials insisted that he needed the treatment and said the boy wasn't capable of making his own life and death decisions. Copyright © 2008, KTLA
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