Hauser responds to cancer treatment
By Serra Muscatello, Staff WriterSLEEPY EYE - Daniel Hauser, the 13-year-old son of Anthony and Colleen Hauser of rural Sleepy Eye, is responding well to treatment for his Hodgkin's lymphoma, according to a family spokesman.
A recent x-ray revealed that his tumor has shrunk, said Daniel Zwakman, a family friend and spokesman from Cottage Grove.
There has been a "significant reduction" in the tumor, according to Zwakman.
Hauser had been reluctant to begin the chemotherapy treatments again after the first treatment in February for his Hodgkin's lymphoma, a type of cancer.
Zwakman reported that Hauser has been "very angry" about receiving the chemo treatments. He had one dose on May 28 and another on June 4.
"His feelings haven't changed on the chemo," said Zwakman, "He's doing it just to be compliant. He's still adamantly against it."
Zwakman said he has just recently returned from spending three days with the Hauser Family.
"This is obviously a trying time (for the family)," said Zwakman, "Danny was real active on the farm ... he did a lot of work out there. They've taken one person on the team out."
Brown County District Court Judge John Rodenberg had ruled that Danile was in need of child protection because Hauser's cancer treatment plan had not been followed. Daniel and his mother testified their religious beliefs favor natural, alternative treatments. In resistance to the chemotherapy treatments, Colleen and Daniel Hauser fled to California to seek alternative treatment, but they returned a week later and agreed they would follow a treatment plan that included chemotherapy.
Daniel is being treated on an out-patient basis at Children's Hospital in Minneapolis, said Zwakman.
Judge Rodenberg has allowed Hauser to stay at home with his family on the family's dairy farm during his treatment process.
"There's no better place he could be - it's where he wanted to be. He's in a healing environment at home," said Zwakman.
In addition to Hauser's chemotherapy treatments he has also been receiving natural healing therapies from his mother, said Zwakman.
"This is pretty heavy proof that the natural therapies that she (Colleen) has been administering (to her son) has had a terrific impact in the reduction of the tumor's size," said Zwakman, "She's still trying to build up his immune system. She's using vitamins and minerals and natural things ... God-given things for sustenance and health."
Hauser has been spending quite a bit his time at home on a couch in a room with a continuous air purifier, said Zwakman.
He has also been feeling the side effects of the chemotherapy such as a very sore throat, no energy and a lack of an appetite.
"If there's any good that can come out of this ... it's all the love and good wishes ... the e-mails and mail coming in from all over the country ... it's been encouraging just to see all the outpouring ... people who have been healed using natural therapies," said Zwakman.
The Hauser Family has been invited to appear on the "Larry King Live" television talk show as soon as they are ready to do so, according to Zwakman.
"The public has reacted very positively and strongly ... with a great deal of support from from all over the country," said Zwakman.
There may also be the possibility of a small documentary on the family being done at some point, said Zwakman.
An update hearing is set for June 23.
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Munchs
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06-20-09 12:05 AM
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Maybe you should ask Billy Best about how natural cancer therapies don't work, since it was at least 14 years ago that he ran away from home to avoid chemo, went to Canada for a cure, and he is alive today and cancer free? He had the exact same cancer as Danny Hauser.
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Olderchick
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06-18-09 3:05 PM
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I guess that until the alternative medicine promoters can prove their claims, I will stick to the tried and true. Yes the side effects of chemo are nasty, and yes the future isn't a sure thing for any amount of time-but all are based on statistics of the medical PRACTICE, just as the alternative medicines are PRACTICE! Since the "snake doctor" cure wasn't doing anything for Daniel's tumor, it was time to do the tried and true method and go from there-at least he has a better chance of living.
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cakelady
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06-17-09 11:38 PM
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I was under the impression that Colleen Hauser hung Calvin Johnson out to dry by saying that he was the one that told her to run when they found out that the tumor was growing. I'm sure that he wanted no part of having his client tie his name to encouraging her to commit a crime. If in fact he really did tell her to run. He is the one that put up the website for Danny and pulled it down almost immediately after her return.
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LJGibbs
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06-17-09 5:26 PM
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Good question CakeLady--did he drop Hauser's or did they drop him?
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cakelady
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06-17-09 2:12 PM
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why did Calvin Johnson drop this case?
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LJGibbs
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06-17-09 9:34 AM
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Lady, thanks for your reply. Would it also help to contact Calvin Johnson, the Hauser's former attorney, since he co-authored the very law that was cited by the Judge in this case? Is he doing anything to amend the laws? Also, where is the law that says if an MD testifies about alternative medicine they can lose their license? I would like to read it, but am not sure where to look. Thank you!
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Bandit
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06-17-09 8:35 AM
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Oops...the doctors have Learned something...
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Bandit
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06-17-09 8:34 AM
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Lady: the FDA and the National Institutes of Health are two totally different organizations with different goals. All the patients at NIH are there for the purpose of being part of clinical trials to test for new drug therapies for many ailments including cancer. In order to be part of the trial, you sign a very LONG consent form which includes all the possible side effects of that particular drug. There are many children there too with their parents because there isn't any other option out there for them. These people are willing to be the test subjects for new drugs which could help them as well as those in the future who are afflicted with that disease. If it doesn't help them, the doctors have earned something that will help future patients. More than 100,000 patients visited NIH in 2007, including 541 from Minnesota. There were 605 active clinical trial being conducted in 2007. (Dept. of Health and Human Services, Feb. 2008)
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nuj1994
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06-17-09 8:08 AM
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"The FDA protects the public from the false claims about the efficacy of treatments not tested for safety and efficacy. This allows the public with and opportunity to choose from the best, proven products for treatment." NUJ1994, informed individual 1969-present
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nuj1994
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06-17-09 8:05 AM
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Lady I think the FDA would welcome an alternative medicine company to file for a study to observe the efficacy of said medicines in cancer and other ailments. Would be costly to these companies and cut into the bottom line of their profits. The FDA could run these drugs though the same rigor that other approved drugs were held to before their approval for use in the public. Only then would they be perceived by doctors as a first-line treatment. Thankfully we have an organization that oversees the claims companies can make about their treatments.
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LibertyLady
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06-17-09 3:16 AM
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"The F.D.A. protects the big drug companies, and is subsequently rewarded, and using the government's police powers, they attack those who threaten the big drug companies. People think that the F.D.A. is protecting them. It isn't. What the F.D.A. is doing, and what the public thinks it is doing are as different as night and day." -- Dr. Herbert Ley, Former Commissioner of the U.S. F.D.A.
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LibertyLady
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06-17-09 3:15 AM
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Perhaps you should do some research too: oncologists lying to parents about the efficacy of their therapy and using coercive tactics such as threats of court orders to take children and submit them to treatments that they know are torturous and ineffective. The abstracts and articles printed in their peer reviewed medical journals that trace the use of these drugs in children starting almost a quarter of a century ago. All the abstracts are available on pubmed.gov, another government web-site (since you find the gov't so trustworthy).
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middleclassworker
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06-16-09 10:23 PM
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Oh, ohhhh....I think that a response from LibertyLady is forthcoming. Just curious, do we say "Big Pharma" because pharmaceutical is too hard to spell? LOL
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Bandit
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06-16-09 8:49 PM
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Lady: The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine just released the results of millions of dollars worth of studies that showed that most alternative treatments for anything don't work. This center is part of the National Institutes of Health, and NONE of the studies are paid for with money from pharmaceutical companies. Everything is paid for with yours and my tax dollars. In fact, the researchers cannot take anything from a drug company. Just wanted you to know the facts. You can check them out online.
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LibertyLady
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06-16-09 7:26 PM
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Just because the USA isn't doing studies of alternative treatments, the rest of the world is not being held captive by "Big Pharma."
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nuj1994
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06-16-09 3:43 PM
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Lady What kind of credible data on natural and alternative therapies would a doctor have to offer? Anectdotal evidence on a handful of patients isn't enough.
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LibertyLady
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06-16-09 12:49 PM
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LJGibbs Yes, I did contact my state representative and yes, I keep blaming the judge. First of all, my state representative didn't want to get involved because Brown County is "not in his district", but I will be working on him to change the law in the next legislative session. That is because the MN child protection law, where is pertains to medical neglect, is subjective. That is why I blame the judge. He made his ruling from his interpretation (based on the testimony of pharmaceutical doctors) of what he considers "acceptable medical treatment for a life threatening illness." No licensed doctor could testify in court about the positive effects of alternative treatments without the threat of loosing their license according to MN statue. That is NOT due process.
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middleclassworker
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06-16-09 1:41 AM
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LOL...LibertyLady. Yeah, that's about all I have to say. I'm happy that he is responding positively to his treatment, whatever one is fixing him. We will always disagree on which one is the one that is working, won't we :) This debate is getting old and I'm actually bored with it. On to the next story. God bless the Hauser family.
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Chippewa
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06-16-09 12:28 AM
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Hats off and THANK YOU TO Lady Liberty for telling it "like it is." As painful and disturbing as her statements may be, she is RIGHT-ON. Radiation is the gift that keeps on burning. Chemical therapy is the gift that poisons. Someday both treatments will considered to be as barbaric as 17th Century Blood-Letting. Without a doubt, the finest healer is Mother Nature. Give her the finest quality tools to heal:vitamins, minerals, homeopathic remedies. Let food be her medicine and mediciine her food! Perhaps then, we won't have to ask:How well do expensive/extensive traditional cancer treatments work after 5 years? What are the long tern side effects of chemo & radiation? Who and what bias actually funded the research supporting chemical and/or radiation therapies?
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Bandit
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06-15-09 11:35 PM
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Liberty Lady - I am a 10 year cancer survivor who is still fighting. I would really like to meet you in person so that you can see how well chemo has worked for me. I had 15 months for a type of cancer that previously had nothing to fight it. Yes, I have had some side effect and could have others in the future...but those certainly beat the alternative - certain death by last year. How about looking at the facts from the National Cancer Institute? Those studies are done without one red cent from a drug company.
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SarahM
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06-15-09 10:36 PM
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Dear Hausers, Thank you for sharing with the public an update on Daniel's condition. You didn't have to, but the public is so interested and I am so pleased to hear Daniel's condition is improving. God Bless!!
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LJGibbs
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06-15-09 10:20 PM
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LibertyLady, you make some excellent comments and have given great information for people who have wanted to research these issues more thoroughly and don't agree with the current laws. I would like to respectfully ask a question though--why do you keep blaming the Judge in this case? He had to follow the law, he didn't write it. Isn't this the legislature's fault, not the Judge or Co Attorney who had to follow the laws the legislature passed? You said earlier that you were going to contact your local rep--what did he/she say? What can we do to make change?
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nuj1994
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06-15-09 8:33 PM
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Lady What is the percentage of patients who die from their primary cancer while taking alternative medicines? How many have bouts with a second cancer? What are the side effects? Sterility? Cataracts? Sore throat? While chemo isn't perfect it's the best course of treatment until otherwise proven by studies
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nuj1994
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06-15-09 8:17 PM
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Lady Sure these medicines warrant more investigation. However, it's up to the manufacturers of these medicines to do so. Seems like none of these people are willing to risk their profits to be proven wrong. Don't doubt for a minute that these medicines don't bring in a huge profit. After all how hard can it be to mix ionized water and ginger root together and sell it as a cancer cure?
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LibertyLady
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06-15-09 7:13 PM
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Come on MCW....is that all you've got to say?
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