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Mother Stops Son's Cancer Treatments
Date: Jan 5th, 2008 4:25:26 pm - Subscribe
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Joshua , 10, of the U.K., had an ependymoma diagnosed six years ago and has had to undergo a catalogue of intense treatment including surgery and chemotherapy. But doctors could not remove the tumor entirely, despite their best efforts over a number of years.

Now Clare and Andrew Ginns, who have divorced, have decided that their son should no longer endure painful procedures and lengthy hospital stays.
Clare Ginns, 41, said: “I have been making this decision for a long, long time. We have always known that one day it may come to this.

“We had a meeting with doctors and both Andrew and I decided there and then that we would take the opportunity to tell them we were not doing anything else. There were a lot of tears, but it’s not a way to live a life.”
Ginns said that doctors failed at first to diagnose the tumor, a type of glioma that attacks the brain and spinal cord, but that her persistence had helped to persuade them to carry out more tests. She added: “If you have got a (sick) child and you know in your heart of hearts something is wrong just keeping knocking on doors. He was not born with it. He was a perfectly normal, average 4-year-old.”
Now his parents want him to spend his remaining precious years on holiday, at school or playing with friends, instead of inside a hospital.

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