Differs from the Justina Pelletier case in that parents are under arrest not the child. But the problem remains that doctors can take a person's freedom making use of police powers with no due process unlike a criminal complaints.
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The family says U.K. authorities had refused to give Ashya the kind of treatment he needed.
The family has criticized Britain's health care system, saying he needs an advanced treatment option called proton beam therapy and that it wasn't being made available to him.
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The spokesman said Ashya King's parents told the judge they don't want to return to the U.K. They were arrested Sunday in southeastern Spain after a European arrest warrant was issued by Interpol at the request of British police. Their son is receiving medical treatment for a brain tumor and is currently at a Malaga hospital.
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Unlike other types of cancer treatment, it doesn't indiscriminately kill surrounding healthy tissue, so there could be fewer long term effects.
In Britain, proton beam therapy is currently only available in the country to treat certain patients with cancer in their eyes. Other countries, including the U.S., Switzerland and Japan, also use proton beam therapy to treat cancers of the spinal cord, brain, prostate, lung and those that affect children.
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Sep 1, 9:28 AM EDT
SPAIN ORDERS CUSTODY FOR PARENTS OF ILL UK BOY
BY DANICA KIRKA
ASSOCIATED PRESS
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31 August 2014 Last updated at 13:48 ET
Ashya King case: What is proton beam therapy?
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