Hunt launched for US boy who is resisting cancer treatment

A national manhunt was under way in the US today for a mother and her 13-year-old cancer-stricken son after the pair fled after refusing potentially life-saving treatment.

Colleen Hauser and her son Daniel, who suffers from Hodgkin’s lymphoma, have not been seen since leaving their Minnesota home on Monday after a doctor’s appointment revealed that the boy’s tumour had spread.