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About 30 sessions could occur in treatment not available in Britain
The Associated Press Posted: Sep 15, 2014 4:05 AM ET Last Updated: Sep 15, 2014 4:09 AM ET
A British boy at the centre of an uproar after his parents took him from a U.K. hospital without doctors' consent is receiving the first treatment for his brain tumour in the Czech capital.
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Monday's treatment was the first of 30 radiation sessions planned for 5-year-old Ashya King at Prague's proton centre.
His parents, Brett and Naghmeh King, had fought a protracted battle to get their son treated with proton beam technology, which targets tumours more directly than radiotherapy but is not yet available for patients with brain tumors in Britain.
Czech doctors say that 70-80 per cent of patients in Ashay's condition survive and that they hope Ashya will fully recover.
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