If you knew there was a high chance of curing a fatal disease in your five year old child would you proceed with the treatment or let your child die?
121873
who would not? what is wrong with it ?
460470
Wanting to die at that age would be unhealthy. \n\nBut simply being at peace with what can and will eventually happen  is perfectly healthy.
240237
of course- if I was dying of a serious illness I'd want any medication that would help me- tested on animals or not. Its survival of the fittest, simple.
100423
I agree that only time can fix this.  If you've shared this with loved ones, I am SURE that they will understand and probably even cheer you on with your treatments.  Try to just look at the bigger picture, you're doing this for a very WONDERFUL reason.  Try to keep a positive attitude and best wishes.
603716
It is either let your father go since Medicare won't pay, or get the money together and save his life and keep him around.  That's a tough decision, but I think I would have to get the money somehow and get the procedure done.
354335
The choice : I  mean everyone should have the choice to take this decision .I believe in life and that miracles are always possible .I ve been against before but there are cases where the patients are suffering a lot , where the idea of the death is the only way to calm the pain .Is it fair to let those people live , enduring the worst just because Euthanasia is considered as a crime and on the otrher hand do we have the riggt to kill , its a difficult question.Anyway the choice must be given to those person to take their own decision.But are the able to take the right decision in their situation?´i ´m sory i didnt answer the question!
49110
The death of my first child in 2004 was because of a medical mistake. Around the age of 10 months, he started to loose weight dramatically and had a never ending appetite. When my husband and i took him to the doctors office, they thought it was because of his formula and didnt bother to do further tests. The though most of the problem was because of us and how we were feeding him. The doctors werent concerned at all, but gave him a sugar drink to help. BIG MISTAKE. He passed away a month later because he had a rare metabolism and diabetic problem, and the sugar drink made it worse. If the doctors took them time to run blood tests, then would have found the problem and put him on medicine. He would still be alive today if the doctors didnt "assume' instead of run some tests.
622548
happens to children freuently is treatable..\n\nit is contagious and can be spread\n\nread the following
599701
Sometimes treatment doesnt work. It didnt work on my dad, he passed away because of lung cancer.  But it did work for my mom, that is a breast cancer survivor.  So it's not up to us or the doctors who are the lucky ones that get to live.
371993
If a doctor told you, then yeah, probably.\nIf some kid at school told you, then no.
302047
Yes of course...\nif it was something I was extremely prone to get and it was something terminal...well then I know which organizations to donate money to for research :P.\nBut yeah, I really would even though ultimately it wouldn't change a thing.  I would still know that its good to live a healthy lifestyle.  I'd still try to eat healthy, get some exercise, meditate, etc.. Beyond this, there's really not a whole lot you can do, just pray :P
311957
I would ask your doc.
593626
Not currently, however there are treatments and preventative measures. \n\nA cure means you will be completely absolved of the problem forever.  \n\nA treatment is a management. Like chemo can rid a person of cancer for awhile but there's still a chance it will come back. \n\nCancer happens on a cellular level so it's going to be a tough one to find a 'cure' for.  \n\n(Quoted)\nCancer can be treated by surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, immunotherapy or other methods. The choice of therapy depends upon the location and grade of the tumor and the stage of the disease, as well as the general state of the patient (performance status). A number of experimental cancer treatments are also under development.\n\nComplete removal of the cancer without damage to the rest of the body is the goal of treatment. Sometimes this can be accomplished by surgery, but the propensity of cancers to invade adjacent tissue or to spread to distant sites by microscopic metastasis often limits its effectiveness. The effectiveness of chemotherapy is often limited by toxicity to other tissues in the body. Radiation can also cause damage to normal tissue.\n\nBecause "cancer" refers to a class of diseases, it is unlikely that there will ever be a single "cure for cancer" any more than there will be a single treatment for all infectious diseases
609592
I WOULD CURE A DISEASE BECAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY PEOPLE IN THE WORLD THAT IS SICK AND DYING OF INCURABLE DISEASES. THERE WILL NEVER BE PEACE ON EARTH ACCORDING TO THE  WORD OF GOD. THERE HAS AND ALWAYS WILL BE POVERTY  IN THE WORLD IN ONE PLACE OR ANOTHER.
389395
I would want it released, because it can help 99% of sufferers, but I would want a "black box" warning to be attached, qualifying this risk.\nThere are many medications out now that have a known risk of causing severe reactions, including death.  I wouldn't use it as first-line therapy; instead, I would use it as a last resort, if the patient fails other standard therapy regimens.\nThe final decision should lie in the hands of the patient and their educated physician.  How old is the patient?  How severe is there disease?  What is the end goal?  \nThere would have to be more sufficient data about the warning signs of the fatal reaction (might we be able to possibly stop the medication in time?  how soon does the reaction occur?).\nI wouldn't be anxious to prescribe it until it was on the market for several years, and I had a chance to review the data on it.
98539
I sure hope you read this and not just let it go by. Let me ask you this, lets say you are married and have a family you leave for a while, an leave them alone an someone kills them, so the laws ask you do you what to fry them or let them do a experiment that we are doing on cancer treatment that we think is the cure. After doing the experiment and it is over with, they have a cure and the person is released just how would you feel. Do you think justice was served. I don't so, because the person made headlines twice, once for killing your family and another for helping to find the cure for cancer.
269196
Tell someone who has the power to commit her or make her see a doctor.  This would be a parent or husband.