Parental Treatment Refusals: What Your Responsibilities Are When Mom and Dad Decline Cancer Treatment for a Child

In my latest Law and Ethics in Oncology column for the ASCO Post, I address "Parental Treatment Refusals: What Your Responsibilities Are When Mom and Dad Decline Cancer Treatment for a Child." 

This is the opposite of a medical futility conflict. There, parents demand too much treatment for the patient. Here, parents demand too little.