Teen who fought cancer treatment heading home from hospital [View all]

[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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