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Judge forces Jehovah's Witness Parents to let kid get real treatment

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Anders:

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--- Quote from: Anders on Jun 02, 2012, 07:05:56 AM ---These are both highly experimental treatments. It's possible that they might work but we know very little about the side effects. I would not recommend using it on very sick 11-year olds.

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Are you an oncologist Anders?

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Nope, but I know a few things about how drug trials work. This looks like Phase II trials to me, which means that it has some effect and no severe side effects in animals (one rodent and one non-rodent species) and didn't kill the guys in Phase I.

You might have a case for 'compassionate use' (meaning you can use experimental procedures on people who have no other hope) but that is not the case here. We have a treatment. It's just that the parents are idiots.

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