Believe these overblown, paranoid fancies if you wish.

The overall five year survival rates for ALL kinds of cancer of ALL stages
in advanced countries s now about 60%.  The long term permanent disease-free
CURE rate would be less, possibly about 50%, since a few cancers can recur
even after five years of apparently complete remission or have slow rates of
progress, and it is true that a few patients get rare late complications
from treatment.     I examine some older data on all this at
http://www.users.on.net/~pmoran/cancer/cancercure.htm but results have been
slowly improving.

Hodgkins disease is a cancer that is extremely sensitive to radiotherapy and
chemotherapy.   It is among the most curable of cancers despite almost
always being inoperable when diagnosed.  I supplied a graph showing the long
term survival rates with this cancer overall
http://members.bordernet.com.au/~pmoran/Hodgkin'ssurvival.htm

PM

"Peter Moran" <pmoran@internode.on.net> wrote in message
news:00377b4f$0$9731> It is very difficult to support forcing any child to
undergo chemotherapy.

bollocks, its fascist medicine http://www.whale.to/cancer/articles.html

50% more like and that is only 5 years, hardly a cure, then you torture the
child, and give it cancer down the line, while everyone fears it will return
as you haven't treated the cause, only palliated the symptoms

idiotic really

see http://www.whale.to/a/cancer_c.html

"The American Medical Association is fashioned to prescribe drugs and
perform various treatments that although they may be unsuspecting, tend to
weed out the weaker species. The Council views the AMA's 'modern medicine'
as barbaric.."-Brice Taylor (Thanks For The Memories p 283)

It is very difficult to support forcing any child to undergo chemotherapy.
That is an awful prospect and possibly not even feasible, especially without
parental support. .   But this is an entirely separate consideration from
what would be best for the child.  It is a tragic and difficult situation
for all.   Know-nothings like Mike Adams do, literally, know nothing, and
should not be trying to inflame the situation further.   They should at
least be quite explicit if they are really prepared to urge the avoidance of
chemotherapy at any cost, even that of a painful, slow, early death.

There is no evidence that any "alternative" treatment will produce remission
or cure Hodgkins disease but plenty of evidence that chemotherapy can
produce prolonged, symptom-free remissions, if not cure.

See  http://members.bordernet.com.au/~pmoran/Hodgkin'ssurvival.htm  showing
how survival rates have improved over time. These survival figures refer to
"all comers", including more aggressive and advanced cases.   This boy had a
relatively early stage and would have had an even better outlook, if he had
continued treatment once it had started and he was already showing a good
response.

PM