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The Sleepy Eye family awaiting word on
whether a judge will let their 13-year-old son refuse chemotherapy
treatment for cancer say they're a normal family who just want
their beliefs respected.

      Judge John Rodenberg is expected to rule Friday on whether Brown
County can force Daniel Hauser to undergo five chemotherapy
treatments that doctors say are his best chance to survive
Hodgkin's lymphoma. They say without it there's a 95 percent chance
he'll die.

      The Hausers are Roman Catholics, and members of a church called
the Nemenhah band that advocates natural remedies. Mother Colleen
Hauser says she has used natural remedies her whole life and has
faith they can cure her son.


      She says the family hasn't decided what to do if the judge rules
against them.
      


      Information from: The Journal, http://www.nujournal.com/journal

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The Sleepy Eye family awaiting word on
whether a judge will let their 13-year-old son refuse chemotherapy
treatment for cancer say they're a normal family who just want
their beliefs respected.


Ruling expected Friday in boy's chemo case

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