If a cancer patient chooses regardless of stage and type, and based upon autonomy right, not to have surgery, chemo, radiation, immunotherapy or clinical trials what then happens next for the patient? have you ever heard of this? person goes home?

Patients have a choice to accept or deny any treatment if they are a competent adult. If they want to sit at home and let the cancer kill them it its own time frame, they can and some do. If this choice is made it is important to inform all family members and or friends that may be present at any point. When called, an ambulance will take comatose people to a hospital regardless of their choice.

A competent adult can choose to refuse treatment. Mind the words, competent and adult. Relatives of the person could have the person declared incompetent and doctor's would honor that if a court agrees with the relatives. Children do not have the same autonomy.