A 17-year-old Connecticut girl forced by the courts to undergo chemotherapy for her cancer has finished treatment and been released from a hospital.The teen, identified only as Cassandra C, tells The Associated Press that she left Connecticut Children's Medical Center in Hartford on Monday and was heading home to Windsor Locks. She was at the hospital for five months.
Doctors say her Hodgkin lymphoma, diagnosed in September, is in remission.
Cassandra and her mother initially refused the treatment, saying they wanted to explore alternative treatments. That prompted the state Department of Children and Families to step in and take custody of her.
The case went to the state Supreme Court, which ruled in January that Connecticut wasn't violating Cassandra's rights by forcing her to undergo chemotherapy.
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