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May 22, 2009 4:02 pm US/Central

Nemenhah Leader Defends Group

STOCKTON, Mo. (AP) ― A southwest Missouri man runs an Internet-based group that's in the spotlight because of one of its members fled with her cancer-stricken son to avoid chemotherapy.

Philip Cloudpiler Landis leads the Nemenhah Band, which he says has about 4,000 members across the U.S. He calls it a religion based on natural healing.

Colleen Hauser fled her Minnesota home Monday with her 13-year-old son, who has Hodgkins' lymphoma, a highly curable cancer when treated with chemotherapy and radiation. They fled a day before a court hearing that could have resulted in a judge ordering chemotherapy.

The Nemenhah Band has a Web-based following. Landis says he supports the Hausers desire to seek alternative care, but also urges them to return home.

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