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Saving Ashya
Ashya King sparked an international manhunt in 2014 when his parents Brett and Naghmeh King removed him from NHS care at Southampton University hospital, to undergo pioneering proton treatment at the Proton Therapy Center in Prague. Ashya had been diagnosed with a medulloblastoma, an aggressive grade 4 type of brain tumour, which was successfully removed by surgeons in Southampton on 24 July. He then had a further operation on his brain on 22 August.
As a result of these procedures he was unable to speak, unable to eat or drink on his own and relied on a food pump.
In order to help prevent a return of the tumour, his parents wanted him to be given proton beam therapy - a treatment the NHS does not provide in the UK, although it does refer patients to other countries for treatment.They were arrested in Spain and held by police for 3 days before eventually being released and allowed to continue their journey. Ashya was made an award of court and only after 2 further court hearings at the family courts in London, where it was confirmed that the treatment wanted by Ashya's family was both valid and deemed beneficial . Three years later and Ashya’s family say he is now back at school and cancer-free.
As a result of these procedures he was unable to speak, unable to eat or drink on his own and relied on a food pump.
In order to help prevent a return of the tumour, his parents wanted him to be given proton beam therapy - a treatment the NHS does not provide in the UK, although it does refer patients to other countries for treatment.They were arrested in Spain and held by police for 3 days before eventually being released and allowed to continue their journey. Ashya was made an award of court and only after 2 further court hearings at the family courts in London, where it was confirmed that the treatment wanted by Ashya's family was both valid and deemed beneficial . Three years later and Ashya’s family say he is now back at school and cancer-free.
363 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 11, 2017
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