The thing that gets me is that they have already gone through 3 months of chemo. There is only so much of those chemicals that a person is supposed to be able to take. At least that is what my 23 year old sons oncologist told us about his treatment. There are so many factors that go into decisions for treatments. This judge in my opinion is being irresponsible at least and in violation of the rights of parents and son.
And if he, the judge, insists on treatment is he going to pay? Who will pay? Many cancer expenses are not covered by health ibnsurance!!!!
It is true that people may be able to take only a certain amt of a particular chemo drug during their lifetime, but I am not sure that applies to all chemo drugs...
My own son had APL leukemia, diagnosed 22 yrs ago...at that time, one of the main chemo drugs used to try to obtain a remission was daunomyocin, which is a very heart toxic chemo drug, more heart toxic, than most chemo drugs...one can take that for only just so long, and then can no longer take it, other less effective chemo drugs have to be used instead...I am only really familiar with the drugs that my own son had, not really familiar with all the other chemo drugs..
But I do know that children with the regular childhood leukemia, called ALL, are on chemo drugs for years...the most intensive drugs are or course, during the induction phase, and in the consolidation stage, but they are also in the maintenance phase for years, during which time they are still receiving chemo drugs...
So I think its safe to say, that how much of a chemo drug one can take during their lifetime, depends on which exact particular drug one is taking...