Mum who lost son to cancer calls for choice of treatments
A mother whose child died from a brain tumour says cancer treatments other than chemotherapy and radiotherapy should be available to children.
It comes after an international search was launched to find 5-year-old Ashya King, who was removed from hospital by his parents to have proton beam therapy abroad.
Karen Capel, who founded child cancer charity Christopher's Smile after her son died aged four in 2008, said Ashya's parents would have not gone to such "desperate measures" if other "safe" treatments were on offer.
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