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This movie has enough wirework and furious swordplay to raise an audience's collective gasp of amazement. Knives, swords and spears move like fatal Frisbees, careering toward their targets with the help of some supple computer trickery. The narrative is no less devious: every loyalty, emotional and political, must be...
Given those statistics, Supple - whose chemotherapy winds up in March - is lucky to be alive. Given his age, he's even luckier. While there have been huge strides in treating young children - about 80% of under-15s diagnosed with cancer in Australia and New Zealand will beat the disease, more...
Experts like Cole believe they know the reasons for the discrepancy. First, it's probable that the same cancer is more aggressive in older children; this needs more research. Second, compared with young children, teens are obstreperous patients. "There could be a compliance component, but it can't just be...
In Australia, most young children with cancer are treated in pediatric hospitals (invariably teaching hospitals linked to a university) and most of these kids are enrolled in trials. The idea of trials as bold experiments with mysterious drugs is wrong. Often there's no new agent involved. Oncologists have been...
Nonetheless, getting patients to submit to the onslaught is hard. More than most cancer patients, adolescents dwell in the "Why me?" phase and resist treatment that robs them of looks and vitality. Supple's mother Jenny says he threatened "all the time" to stop taking his medicine and could go...