We see no reason why a patient should not be allowed to make an informed decision to go outside currently approved medical methods in search of an unconventional treatment.
Nothing is more precious than freedom.
In cancer treatment, freedom of choice means having the knowledge to make a decision about which treatments you want. It also means being in a position to reject treatments you do not want, without pressure or coercion from other people, including doctors and family members. This right was adumbrated over a century ago by the British philosopher John Stuart Mill in his classic On Liberty , and by U.S. Supreme Court Justices Louis Brandeis and Benjamin Cardozo, who wrote that individuals have an essential right of privacy, and that over their own bodies they could do what they wished. The right has been spelled out in greater detail by jurists, philosophers, and many patients in the course of the twentieth century. While most people in power give lip service to this idea, in practice our medical rights are often abrogated.