Court forcing 16 yr old with cancer into chemo

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Originally Posted by Moonliner

Death is the outcome for untreated Hodgkins. From the reports here he is quite far along with the disease and the probability of his recovering without treatment is essentially nil.

and yes, his parents did say they have taken him to Mexico and that their treament plan for him is the organic diet.

I don't feel qualified to comment on the proper course for this specific case. Nor do I know anything about Hodgkin's in general. And I should add that out of the people I know that treated their cancer without chemo, only one went to Mexico, and she also got traditional surgeries here in the states.

But most any kind of malignant cancer will kill you if you don't treat it. That's not to say that people that seek alternatives are just marching to the grave. And a cancer diet is much much more than just an organic diet. I eat an organic diet, and it wouldn't cure me of cancer if I had it. It's a complex system of certain foods eaten at certain times of day that takes into account the individual and all systems of the body and the chemical reactions that affect them.

Many herbs can do the exact same thing that synthetic medicines can do, but better and with fewer side effects. The US government is only starting to research it, but Germany has been doing placebo controlled double blind studies on herbs for two decades. It's not as if it's some quack on a beanbag burning incense and willing cancer away.