Right to refuse cancer treatment.

[tinfoilhat]

It's impossible to know the odds though......cancer is unpredictable.

 

Obelix reckons there is an 80% chance of 10 year survival. Is that wrong then?

[Obelix]

It's impossible to know the odds though......cancer is unpredictable.

 

Here are the UK numbers.

 

http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/cancer-info/cancerstats/types/hodgkinslymphoma/survival/hodgkins-lymphoma-survival-statistics

[Allen]

Isn't the most important part of the argument the fact that she is a minor?

I haven't changed my mind on this one...

 

It's impossible to know the odds though......cancer is unpredictable.

Nor this....

 

Obelix reckons there is an 80% chance of 10 year survival. Is that wrong then?

No.

I won't dispute the statistics shown by Obelix.

 

...........

 

I'd ask though....doesn't the 80% survival rate add some weight to the argument that the US state should intervene.

[aliceBB]

The problem with setting a legal age of minority/majority is that there will always be individual cases around the margins of that age where the law is not appropriate. Some 17 year olds are more mature, self-aware and wise than some 30 year olds.

 

Plus, if you are deemed old enough to be in charge of two tons of potentially lethal hardware (aka a motor vehicle) at 15, or a gun at 16 in some states, it seems bizarre that you are not allowed - even with your parent's support - to make a decision about your own quality of life at 17.