The girl's parents believed treatment was unrealistic due to her severe epilepsy and development delays, and Autistic Spectrum Disorder, and wanted palliative care instead.
The court heard the teenager's mother would prefer she had palliative care and died at home.A hospital in rural New South Wales has won a court case giving it permission to give life-saving cancer treatment to a teenager against her parents' wishes.
A professor told the court OL's development age is between 18 months and 3 years and she had up to six seizures a day.The girl, her parents, the hospital and treating doctors and nurses cannot be named. "The mother thinks that Dr KD's estimate of 58 general anaesthetics over two years is not realistic due to the need to restrain OL," Justice Elkaim said."She would prefer her daughter receive palliative care and be allowed to die at home.Justice Elkaim told the court his decision was "difficult but that did not mean it should not be undertaken".
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