NATIONAL BRIEFING / MINNESOTA
A 13-year-old cancer patient and his mother, who fled last week to avoid court-ordered chemotherapy for him, returned voluntarily, and the boy was examined by a doctor.
Daniel Hauser was “immediately checked over medically” when he and his mother arrived on a charter flight at 3 a.m., Brown County Sheriff Rich Hoffmann said.
On a video released by the Sheriff’s Department, Colleen Hauser described how the first chemotherapy treatment Daniel received made him sick, and she said he planned to run away from home.
“And that just broke my heart,” Hauser said. “I can’t have one of my children running away from something that they should face.”
Daniel and his mother had been due in court May 19 for a hearing that could have resulted in a judge ordering chemotherapy to treat Daniel for Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
The disease has a 90% chance of being cured in children if treated with chemotherapy and radiation.
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