Parents of cancer-stricken girl back in court Texas couple fighting to prevent continuing treatment
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8231365/
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Cancer returned to a 13-year-old girl because her parents fought to prevent continuing treatment, the girl’s former doctor testified Wednesday at a custody hearing.
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Katie Wernecke has been in foster care since June 4, when Nueces County sheriff’s officials took her from a family ranch where she had been hiding with her mother.
Child Protective Services officials took custody after doctors told them that the girl’s parents were risking her life by refusing radiation therapy for Hodgkin’s disease, a type of cancer that involves the lymph nodes.....
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http://www.chron.com/...metropolitan/3226957
The Werneckes believed that the four rounds of chemotherapy Katie had undergone destroyed the cancer and that radiation therapy was unnecessary and potentially harmful.
Edward Wernecke, Katie's father, told The Associated Press he feared the radiation would put Katie at a heightened risk for breast cancer, stunt her growth and cause learning problems....
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Hodgkins disease is a fairly curable form of lymphoma - WTF is wrong with people?
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8231365/
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Cancer returned to a 13-year-old girl because her parents fought to prevent continuing treatment, the girl’s former doctor testified Wednesday at a custody hearing.
advertisement
Katie Wernecke has been in foster care since June 4, when Nueces County sheriff’s officials took her from a family ranch where she had been hiding with her mother.
Child Protective Services officials took custody after doctors told them that the girl’s parents were risking her life by refusing radiation therapy for Hodgkin’s disease, a type of cancer that involves the lymph nodes.....
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http://www.chron.com/...metropolitan/3226957
The Werneckes believed that the four rounds of chemotherapy Katie had undergone destroyed the cancer and that radiation therapy was unnecessary and potentially harmful.
Edward Wernecke, Katie's father, told The Associated Press he feared the radiation would put Katie at a heightened risk for breast cancer, stunt her growth and cause learning problems....
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Hodgkins disease is a fairly curable form of lymphoma - WTF is wrong with people?
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