article_snippet.sent: Ashya’s chances of long-term survival could have been halved by Brett and Ashya King’s decision to flee abroad with Ashya King before Ashya King had the treatment Ashya King was being offered here.
article_snippet.sent: Mr King, 51, said Ashya did not need subsequent chemotherapy as Ashya was in remission.
article_snippet.sent: But Dr Wilson, a paediatric intensive care consultant, said Ashya should have undergone chemotherapy within six weeks of Ashya original surgery to remove the tumour in Southampton last July, and said it was too early to say Ashya had been cured.
article_snippet.sent: We are unsure as to exactly what treatment Ashya is receiving
article_snippet.sent: but what We do know is… every month that goes by that Ashya’s not getting chemotherapy,
article_snippet.sent: Ashya outcome worsens.
article_snippet.sent: Dr Wilson said there was an ‘international consensus’ of medical opinion that Ashya’s form of brain cancer should be treated by surgery followed by chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
article_snippet.sent: The Kings were unavailable for comment but have said The Kings wanted Ashya to receive the best possible treatment.