Child A Prisoner In His Hospital Bed Because Of Cancer

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The young boy is in Child Protective Services after fighting doctors with his father over the desire to try chemo in a bid for life.

The child's father (because the child is in protective custody he can not be names) says that his son is now run down and wants to come home.

The boy was diagnosed when he was seven with acute lymphoblastic leukemia(ALL). Chemotherapy sent the cancer into remission but now four years later that cancer has returned.

Medical officials say the boy only has about six months to live without chemo and insisted that he go through another round even though the boy and his family wanted to try alternative approaches. With chemo his chance of survival are at best 50-50.

According to the father now that his son is alone in this struggle without his family's faith he has given up.

The boy lies in a hospital room that is surrounded by security guards and CAS and youth protection workers.

"He's a little prisoner, he can't leave his room or anything, he can't visit with any other sick children, he can't go anywhere because he's under house arrest," the father said.

"He's a criminal for having cancer.

The child has undergone the round of chemo and will not be released from hospital until Thursday at the earliest. A judge in Hamilton court is having to decide where the child will go when he is released from hospital, his family or foster care.

"We told him, 'Don't worry buddy, please try to be healthy, relax, relax, relax, relax,' and he even said to me, 'I don't care. They can even kill me with their chemo and stuff I don't care, as long as I can come home and be home with you and mommy," the father recalled.

"You know what that feels like to hear your son say that?"

This child shows a stark face of what can happen when families and doctors don't agree on a medical course.