"It means his cancer is back and he is in danger, " Bostrom said.
CNN: Father appeals to his wife to return with their cancer-stricken son
Dr Bostrom says there is a real gap between the speed of technological advance and our understanding of its implications.
Bostrom, who witnessed the man's killing, said Ghanem was taken away by Israeli forces while he was still mortally wounded.
So Bostrom reported the family to authorities, the first time he has taken such a step in 25 years of practice, he said.
CNN: Father appeals to his wife to return with their cancer-stricken son
But the doctor who ultimately cared for the boy has said he was only treating his symptoms, not the cancer itself, Bostrom said.
CNN: Father appeals to his wife to return with their cancer-stricken son
But, as he stated in his article, Bostrom said he has doubts about the necessity of the procedures if it is clear how the person died.
"He's now almost three months late, that's why it has regrown, " Bostrom said, referring to another doctor's interpretation of a chest X-ray that showed Monday the tumor had worsened.
CNN: Father appeals to his wife to return with their cancer-stricken son
In April, after the boy had not returned for the second course, Bostrom called the family and left a message threatening to report them for child neglect, he said.
CNN: Father appeals to his wife to return with their cancer-stricken son
"The fear of nuclear war has diminished partly because the risk has receded significantly with the end of the Cold War, " says Nick Bostrom, director of Oxford University's Future of Humanity Institute.
Bostrom said he balanced those claims in his article by including a reaction from an Israeli military spokesman who told him that the Israel Defense Forces routinely carries out autopsies on Palestinians killed by their troops.
And what times we are living in, with the Large Hadron Collider on the one hand, and on the other, Nick Bostrom's very logical argument that we're actually living in a simulation operated by an advanced future civilization.
After that incident, at least 20 Palestinian families told Bostrom that they suspected the Israeli military had taken the organs of their sons after they had been killed by Israeli forces and their bodies taken away -- presumably for routine autopsies.
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