Ashley Treatment
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ashley-treatment-186-17580992
title:
Ashley Treatment
text:
The Ashley Treatment refers to a controversial set of medical procedures performed on an American child, "Ashley X". Ashley, born in 1997, has severe developmental disabilities due to static encephalopathy; she is assumed to be at an infant level mentally, but continues to grow physically. The treatment included growth attenuation via high-dose estrogens, hysterectomy, bilateral breast bud removal, and appendectomy. In June 2016, after 18 years of searching, Ashley's condition was determined to
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Controversial 1997 set of child medical procedures
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Treatment
date created:
2007-01-05T03:50:58Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T03:54:00Z
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{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Ashley_x.jpg","width":326,"height":480}
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