Israel Hayom is reporting a case where the court is ordering a boy to go undergo chemotherapy and radiation treatment for his leukemia. According to the article, the boy was treated in the past and his cancer was in remission. His doctors are saying it has returned by the boy and his family are refusing treatment, according to the article, on the advice of their rabbi.
"If they could prove that this treatment is necessary, we would agree to it," said the boy's father.
It is not clear from the article whether the rabbi has seen the medical report.
See here for an article entitled How A Rabbi Decides A Medical Halacha Issue by Rabbi Yitzchok A. Breitowitz.
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