Salt Lake City ? A couple accused of kidnapping their cancer-stricken son to avoid chemotherapy agreed Friday to get the treatment for him if a new physician assigned to diagnose the boy recommends it.

The agreement, made official during a juvenile court hearing, offered some resolution to the family’s dispute with the state over government’s authority to override parents in life-and-death decisions involving their children.

Daren and Barbara Jensen were charged with kidnapping for taking their 12-year-old son, Parker, to Idaho to avoid a Utah court order to start chemotherapy Aug. 8.

At Friday’s hearing, which was closed to the public, Juvenile Court Judge Robert Yeates dropped the state’s custody warrant for Parker and the arrest warrants against the parents for their disobeying his chemotherapy order. The kidnapping charges remain, however.

“Given the situation, what else can we do but get Parker the care he needs?” Daren Jensen told The Associated Press by telephone from Idaho, where the family sought exile and next week will consult a new doctor agreed upon by Utah state attorneys.

“I’ve got to get a job. I’ve got to get our life back in order. We’ve been through a lot. We basically have to start over,” said Jensen, who said he had to leave his job as a software executive because of the case.

Mollie McDonald, the court-appointed guardian for Parker, said the state would immediately regain custody of him if his parents didn’t fulfill the agreement.

Jensen, meanwhile, was holding out hope that Deputy Dist. Atty. Angela Micklos would drop the kidnapping charges, although she made no such commitment Friday outside the state courthouse.

Although Parker appears healthy, doctors say he could die without an immediate, 49-week regimen of chemotherapy.

The family insisted Parker could just as easily die of chemotherapy.

Daren, 12-year-old Parker and Barbara Jensen conduct a phone interview with a television show in Pocatello, Idaho. The Jensens regained legal custody Friday of Parker as part of a deal to get him medical treatment for cancer. The agreement made in juvenile court offered some resolution to the family's fierce battle with Utah officials over medical control of their son.