Parents Declining Therapy

January 27 2007
Topic: General Medicine

Parents sometimes decline conventional cancer therapy for their child due to various reasons. Which of the following reasons do you think are justified?

Good prognosis (>70% 5-yr survival) but therapy highly toxic (0 vote, 0.00%)




Poor prognosis (<5% 5-yr survival) (2 vote, 66.67%)




Good prognosis (>70% 5yr) but parents prefer alternative therapy (1 vote, 33.33%)




None of the above (0 vote, 0.00%)




Two or all of the above (0 vote, 0.00%)