Teen who fought cancer treatment heading home from hospital

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-Excite

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A 17-year-old Connecticut girl forced by the courts to undergo chemotherapy for her cancer has finished that treatment and is expected to be released from the hospital.

The teen, identified only as Cassandra C, tells The Associated Press that she is being released from the Connecticut Children's Medical Center on Monday.

Doctors say her Hodgkin lymphoma, diagnosed in September, is in remission. Cassandra posted photos Friday after having the posts used to administer the chemo removed from her body.

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[TexasProgresive]

2. Good news, I hope she doesn't fight any follow up treatments.

I think that: "the posts used to administer the chemo" should probably read: "the ports used to administer the chemo"

[LisaL]

6. Once she turns 18, it's going to be up to her.

[GOLGO 13]

3. Just remember that it was SCIENCE, that saved you M'kay?

Science will save us all! Or destroy the earth when the robot overlords expand their territories across the cardinal line.

[CBGLuthier]

4. I am happy she is well but I will never endorse forced life by the state

She is quite old enough to make this decision herself. Fuck the government for forcing her to do what she did not want.

[packman]

5. While I agree with you on general principle

There are ALWAYS exceptions where the government is almost obligated to step in - protection of an child, an adult with reduced mental capacity, etc.

[LisaL]

7. She was a minor.

Not old enough by our standards.

[LeftishBrit]

8. Good - now she has an over 90% chance of survival, according to the typical statistics