Anya died on January 30, 2012

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Hello!
my only daughter Anya is now 23.
She is a happy and active young woman. She really wants to live and needs your help. My daughter went through the most difficult challenges.
In 2005 her lymph nodes got enlarged. The doctors referred her from Lodeinoe Pole where we live to St. Petersburg for examination. Diagnosis: Hodgkin's lymphoma, stage II. After four cycles of chemotherapy and radiation, the disease retreated and it was an indescribable joy.
Anya enrolled into Law Department of St. Petersburg State University and finished two years. And then in 2009 at a routine examination, like a thunder in a clear sky: lymphoma in both lungs with multiple metastases. In two and a half years since, Anya underwent more than 20 cycles of chemotherapy and bone marrow transplantation.
The disease would back off and then attack again. At this time, my daughter was prescribed thalidomide, a medication that will contain disease. A cycle of treatment costs 86,000 rubles.
The main therapy that Anya can only receive abroad uses a very expensive drug, Adcetris, which costs 350,000 rubles per cycle. Anya would need anywhere from 6 to 15 cycles.
During Anya's treatment we met many very kind and responsive people who have helped us. We hope that this time too there will be people who will not be able to stay unmoved by our struggle and will help my daughter. Without you, Anya will not be able to win.
We are grateful in advance to everyone who will respond.

Zoya, Anya's mom

Clinical summary

Update as of November 16, 2011. On November 13th Anya started a new cycle of cyclophosphane + thalidomide. On the 4th day Anya's condition is good, except for low blood counts.

Update as of December 12, 2011. We are now in talks with the manufacturer of drug SGN35 regarding its import to Russia. An import permit from Ministry of Health and Social Development should be received this week. As Anya was diagnosed with new fungal lesions in her lungs, she was prescribed Noxafil.

Update as of January 11, 2012. We received a bill for SGN-35. The cost for 6 vials is 965,147 rubles.

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