{"id":10,"date":"2020-05-15T23:16:56","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T23:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/?p=10"},"modified":"2020-06-11T16:29:37","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T06:29:37","slug":"cassandra-callender-forced-into-chemotherapy-dies-at-22-after-cancer-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/cassandra-callender-forced-into-chemotherapy-dies-at-22-after-cancer-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Cassandra Callender, forced into chemotherapy dies at 22 after cancer battle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Cassandra Callender, who made headlines for her fight against having cancer treatment as a teen, has died after a five year battle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"647\" height=\"363\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Cassandra-Callender.jpg?resize=647%2C363&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Cassandra-Callender.jpg?w=647&amp;ssl=1 647w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Cassandra-Callender.jpg?resize=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 647px) 100vw, 647px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Cassandra Callender, who was forced by United States courts as a teenager to undergo chemotherapy for cancer, has died after a five-year battle with the disease at the age of 22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ms Callender, from Connecticut, died on Tuesday at home, where she had been in hospice care for four months, her mum Jackie Fortin said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe cancer never went away,\u201d Fortin said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey said they saved her life. They lied. She suffered for five years. It was horrific. If you did that to your dog, you\u2019d get arrested.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A judge in 2015 ordered Callender, known as \u201cCassandra C.\u201d during her legal fight, to undergo chemotherapy for Hodgkin\u2019s lymphoma after she refused treatment, saying she didn\u2019t want to poison her body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-text-align-right has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/lifestyle\/health\/cassandra-callender-forced-into-chemotherapy-dies-at-22-after-cancer-battle\/news-story\/684eafdfd527f43314ba7094c5386278\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cassandra Callender, who made headlines for her fight against having cancer treatment as a teen, has died after a five year battle. Cassandra Callender, who was forced by United States courts as a teenager to undergo chemotherapy for cancer, has died after a five-year battle with the disease at the age of 22. Ms Callender,&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/cassandra-callender-forced-into-chemotherapy-dies-at-22-after-cancer-battle\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cassandra Callender, forced into chemotherapy dies at 22 after cancer battle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,2],"tags":[5,23,296,3,6,94,25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Cassandra-Callender.jpg?fit=647%2C363&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}