Texas ? A 13-year-old cancer patient who was put into foster care after her parents refused to allow radiation treatment will be reunited with her family, a judge ruled Monday.

Faced with her deteriorating health, state district Judge Jack Hunter said Katie Wernecke would be better off with her family in Corpus Christi than in the custody of the foster parents she was assigned by Child Protective Services.

“CPS and the Werneckes are never, ever going to agree,” Hunter said. “If I leave it up to CPS and the Werneckes … this child is going to die for lack of anything being done.”

Child Protective Services removed Katie from her family after her parents stopped her cancer treatment.

Katie’s parents have made several attempts to stop treatment for the girl’s Hodgkin’s disease, a cancer of the lymph nodes. She was diagnosed in January and began receiving chemotherapy, which doctors recommended be followed with radiation.

Katie’s oncologist has said her chances of surviving have fallen from 80 percent to about 20 percent because of incomplete treatment.