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Originally Posted by Janie
Yeah, it definitely seems like the doctors didn't fully explain what being in remission meant. I'm not educated myself in the matter, but wouldn't a cancer patient still have to undergo a certain amount of radiation therapy even though the cancer is in remission, simply to keep it that way?
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This gets interesting if you are current on recent advances in cancer treatment. There is currently NO consensus on the necessity of radiation in the treatment of Hodgkins. The recent trend, especially in kids, has been to try to omit radiation whenever possible because it has so many long term side effects. It's an area of very active debate in the cancer community now. So for the state to get involved in this way seems utterly overbearing. Of course, we don't know all the facts in this case, so I'm just offering an opinion based on what's in the article above.