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The death of an 11-year-old girl, who sparked headlines after her family agreed to let her stop chemotherapy, is currently under investigation.
Makayla Sault, a member of the First Nations tribe in Canada, died after suffering a stroke on Sunday, Jan. 18. In a statement, the family blames the effects of 12 weeks of chemotherapy she had endured before she had stopped treatment, ABC News reported.
Makayla sparked national headlines last May after, at her request, she stopped chemotherapy treatment for her acute lymphoblastic leukemia. The family was soon investigated by a division of Canada's Children's Aid Society, which ultimately allowed the family to continue to care for Makayla without requiring the chemotherapy treatments.
In a video statement, Makayla explained why she asked her parents to stop chemotherapy in favor of "traditional" medicine.
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I can understand not wanting to go through chemo. I did and it s*cked. I had blood clots in my legs, and was later hospitalized with pulmonary embolism. To my amateur opinion, the stroke she died from could have been caused by chemo. The blood clot in my lung may have traveled to the brain. I lost my girl dog from the same form of leukemia after four months of chemo. Makayla was only 11, but old enough to feel discomfort, and to force treatments on her would be mean.
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Yes, as happens so often in these cases, it’s not the quack’s fault that the child died. It’s the fault of those evil “Western†doctors and their poisonous chemotherapy. Always. Unfortunately, a stroke is a known complication of leukemias due to either cancer-related coagulopathy or complications of treatment. It’s one way that patients with end stage leukemia die. Given that Makayla hadn’t been treated in months, her stroke was almost certainly due to her cancer. Such strokes can be a hemorrhagic (for example, if the platelet count falls very low), or it can be a thrombotic stroke (clot) if the white blood cell count goes too high. Either way, it’s not particularly surprising that Makayla, with untreated leukemia, suffered a fatal stroke. It was almost certainly end stage cancer the killed her, not the side effects of the chemotherapy.
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Still, with the addition of a targeted drug like Gleevac, 70% even of patients like her survive to five years, a virtual cure, said Dr. Victor Lewis, an oncologist at the Alberta Children’s Hospital who was not involved in the case.
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