Diagnose: heterotype peripheral neuroectodermal tumor (Askin tumor) of the fourth rib on the left, extensive stage, and right lung, vertebrae and lymph node metastases.
Necessary: six intensive polychemotherapy courses, radiation therapy and four post-operation polychemotherapy courses.
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CAMPAIGN NEWS
10.04.2009
Marina Polekhina, 13 years old
Address: Saran, Karaganda Region, Republic of Kazakhstan
Diagnose: heterotype peripheral neuroectodermal tumor (Askin tumor) of the fourth rib on the left, extensive stage, and right lung, vertebrae and lymph node metastases.
Necessary: six intensive polychemotherapy courses, radiation therapy and four post-operation polychemotherapy courses.
Sum required: 5,108,600 rubles for the drug
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Rubles: 5 108 600.00
Dollars: 158 671.39
Euro: 122 592.47
Still lacking: 3,262,253 rubles
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Rubles: 3 262 253.00
Dollars: 101 324.48
Euro: 78 285.18
Marina Polekhina's father is an ethnic Russian and her mother is an ethnic Ukrainian, with the family residing in Kazakhstan.
However, Marina and her parents had never cared for ethnic matters until the trouble came.
Late last October, Marina got indisposed suddenly and soon was running a high temperature, coughing and feeling general weakness. Marina had to be absent from school for a fortnight. However, the cold, as the family believed it was, would persist, with the girl's condition deteriorating.
Doctors of the local policlinic in the town of Saran, where Marina and her parents live, decided that the girl had had pneumonia and referred the girl to the regional clinical hospital in Karaganda. However, doctors there suspected the worst and sent Marina to the regional oncologic dispensary. This is how the Polekhins hear the scary word 'cancer' or the second time in the year.
The problem is that Marina's mother has an oncologic eye disease and had to undergo several operations in Moscow. Trips from Kazakhstan to Russia and the treatment in a Russian clinic, for which Kazakhstan's and other nationals have to pay - dealt a blow to the Polekhins' budget.
Now, a new trouble has come.
Unfortunately, the regional oncologic dispensary lacked up-to-date equipment and children's oncology doctors, and, therefore, Lyudmila Polekhina had to bring her daughter to Moscow.
The diagnosis made here revealed that Marina has had a rapidly progressive cancer of a rib, which had already caused metastases in her right lung, vertebrae and lymph nodes. Marina urgently needs intensive polychemotherapy, radiation therapy, a complex operation and post operation chemotherapy.
The Russian clinic estimated the cost of all of that at 5,108,600 rubles - an astronomical amount of money as far as the Polekhins are concerned. To pay for the first trip to Moscow and the first chemotherapy course, all of Marina's relatives had to chip in, having barely gathered the needed 424,030 rubles. Now, they have to pay the money back to those who had lent it to them. The parents and relatives can no more raise over five million rubles - nobody will lend money to the family, in which only the farther has a job.
This is how Marina has become a hostage to a difficult - desperate to be more precise - situation.
The 13-year-old girl will die unless the treatment is launched urgently.
Abstract from the letter to UCOR:
"Please, help. High-risk treatment is needed. Our relatives raised a sum of money that has been enough to pay for the first chemotherapy course only. Marina is in critical condition and needs the next course of treatment to begin urgently".
Additional documents and information:
The letter to the Union of charitable Organisations of Russia - letter text.
