26.04.2007 Nastia Matushkina needs to raise approximately 91,500 rubles to enable her to go to a sanatorium.
26.04.2007 Levon Karagezyan has completely recovered. He and his mom are planning to go home on May 2nd.
26.04.2007 After the consultations with the foreign histologists, Pavlik Gladnev's remission was confirmed.
25.04.2007 Yulia Urusheva is going for the second transplantation. She will need help from blood donors with blood type I(+).
25.04.2007 Ksyusha Borisik is going for autotransplantation. She will need help from many blood donors with any blood type.
25.04.2007 Dmitry Naumov was discharged from a hospital in Samara where he received the second course of
high-dosage chemotherapy. He is now at home.
25.04.2007 Igor Andrianov needs Myleran for the transplantation. The cost of this medication is 10,000 rubles.
25.04.2007 Volodya Lukianov needs to have MRI scans of his brain and spinal cord, which will cost
close to 15,000 rubles. In addition, Volodya’s family urgently needs to find a rental apartment near Prospekt Prosvesheniya subway station.
25.04.2007 Andrei Smirnov's autotransplantation was rescheduled for May 14th. He will need help from many
blood donors.
25.04.2007 The charitable auction that took place
on April 24, 2007 at Lesnoi restaurant raised 195,300 rubles. We are sincerely
grateful to all our supporters! The detailed report regarding donations will
be published in the near future.
22.04.2007 Sasha Fedorov
started mini-blocks of chemotherapy.
22.04.2007 Sasha Berbek
completed course of immunoglobulin therapy.
22.04.2007 Horen Melidonyan has high
temperature, skin rashes and fatigue. He still needs Valcyte, as he continues to test positive for
cytomegalovirus.
22.04.2007 Alina Pozdeeva
is now receiving reinduction blocks (this week she will start the thrid block out of four total).
22.04.2007 Zhenya Tikhonov will receive
four chemotherapy blocks, with three to four week interval between the injections, and PET
scan upon completion of therapy.
22.04.2007 Based on MRI results, Lilya Himonen
is tumor did not respond to Temodal therapy. It is now progressing.
22.04.2007 Irina Dementieva is condition stabilized.
She was offered therapy that does not longer require bone marrow transplantation.
22.04.2007 Natalia Temnikova is recovering
after the transplantation.
22.04.2007 Dmitry Burganov is feeling worse.
He has severe stomachaches and is suspected of having stomach signs of GVHD.
22.04.2007 The hospital received 16 more bottles of Cancidas.
The treatment is proceeding according to the protocol. Katya Tonkova
feels relatively well.
22.04.2007 On April 19th Kolya Haritonov had a
second injection of Alimta. Kolya feels relatively well.
22.04.2007 The therapy with Zivox was effective, and
Ilya Alexeev is sepsis is under control. He was allowed to go home for a few
days. In the future, Iliya will need an operation to remove a nodule in his lungs.
22.04.2007 Oleg Ostapenko completed his radiation therapy.
He will go home for two weeks. Afterwards, he will be examined to verify the effectiveness of the therapy.
12.04.2007 Yulia Kokareva has a new formation. She needs CT and PET scans to determine
further treatment. The cost of CT scan is 5,000 rubles, while PET scan costs 9,000 rubles. Yulia urgently needs help!
12.04.2007 Levon Karagezyan was transferred from intensive care unit into a regular room. He feels well.
10.04.2007 AdVita Foundation initiated fund-raising for
the treatment of Katya Tonkova.
09.04.2007 Andrei Makovsky went home to Omsk.
Thank you very much for helping Andrei!
06.04.2007 Dima Bugranov needs help
with paying for apartment rent and transportation, as he has to come for intravenous
injections to BMT clinic located at ul. Rentgena, 12.
05.04.2007 Andrei Makeev acutely needs help from blood donors with blood type I(+) and financial
help with buying thrombocytes. Andrei is in a serious condition.
05.04.2007 The radiation therapy specialists believe
that with Oleg Ostapenko's tumor localization he needs
the CyberKnife operation. This type of operation is not performed in Russia.
05.04.2007 Iliya Alexeev urgently
needs 5 bottles of Zyvox antibiotic with 300ml/600 mg dosage.
05.04.2007 Levon Karagezyan woke up
and he already talks. He was taken off the artificial lung ventilation to be
transferred from the operating room to intensive care room.
04.04.2007 Levon Karagezyan's tumor
was completely removed. The operation lasted over 10 hours and was successful.
03.04.2007 DKMS, bone marrow donor registry in Tuebingen, Germany, kindly offered a discount on the search for donor for
Konstantin Kniazhischev. The discounted cost of the search and collection of the bone marrow is 9,720 euros.
The search is coming to an end soon. However, we have not been able to raise any money for Konstantin so far.
02.04.2007 Levon Karagezyan
completed pre-operation examination at the university clinic in Munster. The
operation is scheduled for April 4th.
02.04.2007 A donor for Igor Andrianov
was found! The operation date will be set in the next few days.
We urgently need to raise the money for delivery of transplant to
St. Petersburg (2,500 euros).
02.04.2007 The ten-day course of Temodal for
Liliya Himonen was purchased for 76,710 rubles.
In ten days, Liliya will need as much money again, as the Temodal therapy
was prescribed for 21 day. Please support Liliya! She urgently needs help!
02.04.2007 Dima Bugranov needs
blood donations. If you would like to donate blood for Dima, please note
that his blood type is changing, and he now needs blood type I(-).
02.04.2007 Slava Chistyakov will
need blood of type II(-) during transplantation. If you can donate blood for Slava,
please respond!
30.03.2007 In addition to Vfend, Nastia Matushkina
needs help with purchasing Valcyte (52,000 rubles) and Cellcept (9,000 rubles).
30.03.2007 Lera Goloschapova
completed her treatment and went home. She feels well. We are very grateful to those
who helped Lera!
25.03.2007 Zhenya Tikhonov needs help with paying for PET scan and MRI.
25.03.2007 Levon Karagezyan needs 40,000 euros for the operation in Germany
and subsequent month-long rehabilitation.
25.03.2007 Liliya Himonen needs Temodal. She needs at least 192,000 rubles to pay
for the full course of treatment. She is in a serious condition.
25.03.2007 Dima Bugranov received bone marrow transplant on March 22. He now needs
help from blood donors. If you can donate blood type I(+), please respond!
25.03.2007 Horen Melidonyan needs 9,000 rubles for two courses of Roncoleukin.
25.03.2007 Renata Maksudova urgently needs Orungal for long-term intake.
25.03.2007 Volodya Lukianov was transferred to Rauhfus Children’s hospital No.19.
22.03.2007 M. Zurabov offered to exclude seriously ill
patients from the federal health insurance coverage.
Mikhail Zurabov, the head of Ministry of Health and Social Development, had offered
to exclude Russian citizens with serious health conditions from the prescription
drug coverage under the federal system of health insurance. This recommendation
will be reviewed by the State Duma on March 23, 2007. According to Boris Gryzlov,
speaker of Lower House, patients with diabetes, multiple sclerosis, oncological and
hematological diseases, hemophilia and other serious diseases, would be denied
insurance coverage. Overall, based on the Ministry's estimate, the change would
affect approximately 300,000 people.
B. Gryzlov reminded that financing of medications for this category of patients
required 20-25 billion rubles in 2006. "If they were excluded from the
prescription drug coverage, the system will be allowed to function normally,
even considering that over half of the patients in this category preferred cash
payments to free medications", said B. Gryzlov.
Mikhail Zurabov's recommendation came shortly after the scandal over government's
delays with providing patients with free medications. Part of Duma's deputies
demanded sacking of the minister, with fraud in Pension Fund still fresh in their
memory. However, the end result was that the minister was given time until March
20th to come up with the proposals to solve the existing problems. Otherwise,
the Lower House threatened the minister with dismissal. Meanwhile, on March 23rd
the State Duma may also consider whether the Ministry of Health and Social
Development should be divided into two separate agencies (the Ministry of Labor
and the Ministry of Health and Medical Industry). Part of the deputies believes
that the social problems are the result of the difficulties in managing such a
large organization (as reported
by RosBusinessConsulting web site).
22.03.2007 Sasha Karimov needs Heptral and Actovegin.
21.03.2007 Marika Minasyan's lungs are better; however, the lung fluids entered her right
auricle, and she is in a very serious condition. Marika has difficulty breathing and she suffers from pain and heart insufficiency.
21.03.2007 Based on the results of an examination, Horen Melidonyan has blasts again. He urgently needs
four ampoules of Roncoleukin. In addition, he tested positive for cytomegalovirus, so he also needs Valcyte. The cost of Roncoleukin is 4,000 rubles, while a package of
Valcyte costs 52,000 rubles. The help is needed urgently!
18.03.2007 On March 22, Levon Karagezyan needs to have an MRI of his heart.
The cost of this test is 12,000 rubles. Please help Levon!
15.03.2007 Dasha Feoktistova needs
to have spiral computer tomography of three sections of her body, and radiation therapy depending
on results. The cost of CT scan with contrast agent is 12,000 - 18,000 rubles.
15.03.2007 Volodya Lukianov will have
an emergency operation today to install the drainage system. His family needs help with paying
for the tests and medications.
15.03.2007 Oleg Ostapenko will need
PET of his brain and spinal cord at the end of March. The cost of the test will be 12,000 rubles.
19.02.2007 Renata Maksudova needs help from blood donors
with blood type III(-) and IV(-).
19.02.2007 Serezha Salamonov's doctors concluded that he
needs bone marrow transplantation from an unrelated donor.
17.02.2007 Saymour Aliev
completed the last chemotherapy block. Based on the test results, he is in
complete remission. On Wednesday, Seymour is flying home.
16.02.2007 Ira Reshetova
needs to take 6 capsules of Roaccutane (20 mg) each day for a year to prevent
relapse from occurring. A monthly course costs 8,000 rubles.
15.02.2007 The preliminary results of the charitable marathon that took
place as part of Real Hero TV show (broadcast on December 22, 2006 and January 7, 2007 on 5th channel
in St. Petersburg) were the following:
During taping of the show on December 1, 2006, AdVita fund received a
1,000,000-ruble donation from GazpromNeftInvest. The money was spent on:
1. Thrombocyte transfusion equipment for BMT clinic at Pavlov State Medical University - 444,450 rubles.
2. AmBisome for Dariko Salia - 2,810 euros.
3. Cancidas for Renata Maksudova - 159,426 rubles.
4. Ampholip for Zhenya Stepanov and Nastia Hapchuk - 113,960 rubles.
5. Ampholip for Dariko Salia - 119,658 rubles.
6. The fist progress payment to Stefan Morsch registry to initiate the donor search
for Slava Chistyakov - 2,000 euros.
We are sincerely grateful to all the employees of 5th channel who made the charitable marathon possible, as well as
GazpromNeftInvest for their generosity!
During taping of the show on December 1, 2006, Children and Parents Against Cancer received a 1,000,000-ruble donation
from GazpromNeftInvest, as well as 1,000,000-ruble donation from Lenenergo. In addition, close to 1,500,000
rubles were raised between December 22 and January 10 as donations collected by sms-messaging. All this money is
being distributed by a committee that includes representatives from 5th TV channel, doctors from oncology units of
St. Petersburg's hospital, city administration officials and non-profit workers. The decision was made to issue the
funds to:
1. The search for allogeneic donors for Slava Chistyakov,
Mansura Guseinova and the next child in need for the donor search - 1,000,000 rubles.
2. Implant for Serezha Bolshakov - 519,900 rubles.
3. Medications for pediatric oncology unit of city hospital No.31, leukemia chemotherapy unit of
Children's hospital No.1 and pediatric unit of Petrov Oncology Institute - 1,340,000 rubles.
The committee will prepare a detailed report regarding spending by Children and Parents Against Cancer.
Dear friends! We would like to once again thank everyone who responded to our request for help and sent an sms-message.
Without your help, without the help from all the people who care, our patients would be unable to overcome their terrible
disease on their own. We are very happy that so many people want our children to get well and live. Our heartfelt gratitude
to all our supporters!
14.02.2007 On March 8th, Zhensky Peterburg (Woman's Petersburg) magazine
and AdVita fund will host a charitable auction for children with cancer. We are now accepting donations for
auction items. If someone would like to offer auction items or share contacts with painters, sculptors,
photographers and other artists, please contact us! We will gladly listen to any ideas and accept
any help, including help with organizing the event.
12.02.2007 AdVita Foundation initiated fund-raising for
the treatment of Zhenya Tikhonov.
11.02.2007 Volodya Lukianov
was hospitalized at the hospital No.31 in a critical condition. As soon as possible, Volodya
will need gastrostomy installed, as well as intravenous port. The cost of the gastrostomy
is 4,125 rubles, and the port costs approximately 12,000 rubles.
11.02.2007 Dasha Feoktistova
is due to the last chemotherapy block, which she needs to pay for out of pocket.
The approximate cost of the block is 15,000 rubles.
11.02.2007 Sasha Kuzovov
was discharged from Oncology Research Institute to palliative therapy. The CT scan
showed that treatment was unsuccessful.
11.02.2007 Nastia Gontarovskaya
is going home on February 12th. In two months, we will come back for a checkup.
We are enormously grateful to all her supporters!
11.02.2007 Zhenya Stepanov
urgently needs help from blood donors with blood type II(+). Blood of ANY type
will be accepted for exchange at the blood transfusions station at the hospital
No.31. It is open on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9 am -12 pm.
11.02.2007 Yulia Urusheva
will receive bone marrow transplant on February 13th. We are asking blood donors
with blood type I(+) to respond.
05.02.2007 An exhibition of sculptor Konstantin Simun's works from the cycle
"The Road Of Life" will open in Moscow House of Nationalities on February 7th at 6 PM as part of
social and cultural project Co-Creation of the World.
The organizers of the exhibition will sell one of the works to benefit AdVita foundation's patients.
05.02.2007 Dima Bugranov's bone marrow transplantation has
been scheduled for March 15th.
03.02.2007 A donor for Olga Veselkova
was found! She now needs to pay for the search for the donor and delivery
of transplant.
01.02.2007 AdVita Foundation initiated fund-raising for
the treatment of Oksana Zhuravleva.
01.02.2007 Renata Maksudova needs to have PET scan that
costs 16,000 rubles. It needs to be paid for as soon as possible.
01.02.2007 Alesha Levantuev needs help with buying Roaccutane
and paying for apartment rent.
31.01.2007 AdVita Foundation initiated fund-raising for
the treatment of Nadya Kaluzhskih.
25.01.2007 Yulia Krivova needs
constant help from blood donors with blood type I(+) as well as financial
support to buy plasma.
25.01.2007 Lena Osipova is in a very
serious condition.
25.01.2007 Seymour Aliev’s family
needs financial support with paying for treatment and apartment rent.
25.01.2007 Bone marrow transplant for Yulia Urusheva
is scheduled for February 13th.
25.01.2007 Nastia Ostapenko urgently
need blood donations. Donations of any blood type will be accepted.
24.01.2007 AdVita Foundation initiated fund-raising for
the treatment of Seymour Aliev.
24.01.2007 AdVita Foundation initiated fund-raising for
the treatment of Olga Veselkova.
23.01.2007 Natasha Temnikova's sister matched ideally as a
bone marrow donor! The transplantation is scheduled for February. Please help Natasha
with paying for upcoming tests and current medications.
23.01.2007 AdVita Foundation initiated fund-raising for
the treatment of Dasha Feoktistova.
22.01.2007 AdVita Foundation initiated fund-raising for
the treatment of Andrei Makeev.
22.01.2007 Levon Karagezyan is scheduled to undergo
two operations to remove the remaining lesions in his lungs. Tomorrow is his birthday. He is turning 18.
20.01.2007 AdVita Foundation initiated fund-raising for
the treatment of Veronica Bystrova.
19.01.2007 Dasha Shutova still needs help of blood donors.
19.01.2007 Sasha Belyaev needs help of blood donors with
blood type I(+) as well as financial support with blood components. His donated bone marrow is starting to work.
19.01.2007 Yulia Krivova needs financial support with buying blood plasma.
18.01.2007 Bekir Ramazanov was diagnosed with a relapse of lymphoma.
18.01.2007 Dasha Shutova is still in a critical condition. She needs help
from blood donors with blood type I(+) and financial support to buy plasma.
17.01.2007 Dariko Salia urgently needs Daikin air purifier with
a special filter for fungi, which costs 21,000 rubles.
16.01.2007 Ira Reshetova still needs blood donations.
15.01.2007 Bekir Ramazanov, Sasha Belyaev
and Dasha Shutova urgently need donated blood of type I(+). Please call the blood donations coordinator
at +7-901-3-0000-25.
15.01.2007 Andrei Zolotarev's mother is asking for help with
replacing water pipes in their apartment.
12.01.2007 Egor Starostin is going home.
We are enormously grateful to everyone who helped Egor and his mother.
12.01.2007 Grisha Ponidelko was admitted to intensive
care unit again.
12.01.2007 Anya Kostygova's treatment
turned out to be more expensive than expected. She was billed 61,187 rubles, and
she still owes the hospital 8,000 rubles for the previous therapy.
Anya urgently needs help!
09.01.2007 Ira Reshetova needs blood donations
from donors with blood type III(+).
09.01.2007 Sasha Belyaev needs help from blood donors with
blood type I(+), as well as financial support with buying daily medications and thrombocyte transfusion supplies.
07.01.2007 Irina Dementeva needs help
with paying for food and medications.
07.01.2007 Andrei Makovsky needs
blood donations of type I(-) as well as financial support with buying medications.
In the next few days, he will start pre-transplant chemotherapy.
06.01.2007 Zhenya Stepanov urgently needs
Tienam, the cost of therapy with which is 9,000 rubles.
06.01.2007 Nastia Matushkina needs
two packages of Vfend (14 pills in 200 mg dosage) that cost approximately
34,000 rubles each.
30.12.2006 After completing chemotherapy,
Anya Kostygova will need an implant that costs $14,000.
28.12.2006 Sergey Shoroh needs
an antiviral drug Valcyte. The cost of month-long therapy is 60,000 rubles.
26.12.2006 Bekir Ramazanov
urgently needs donated blood, as well as money for parenteral food and blood components.
26.12.2006 Grisha Ponidelko
needs help. He just recently came out of coma.
26.12.2006 Renata Maksudova's
condition had stabilized. However, she still needs help with paying for
medications.
26.12.2006 Sasha Belyaev is in a very
serious condition after the bone marrow transplantation.
24.12.2006 Boris Boiko has a cancer relapse. We need your urgent help!
24.12.2006 Mubarak was found to have another area that accumulates
contrast agent. He will have a control computer tomography. The cost of this procedure is approximately 8,000 rubles.
21.12.2006 Petrov Oncology Research Institute is refusing to provide
Elena Osipova with lifesaving medication Glivec for period of Christmas holidays (approximately two weeks).
18.12.2006 Mubarak needs
to have PET scan that costs 6,000 rubles.
18.12.2006 Alesha Levantuev and his
family need money to pay for apartment rent and living expenses. Alesha's sister
is being admitted to the hospital with hypoplasia of kidney.
15.12.2006 Dariko Salia is severely intoxicated after Amphotericin.
15.12.2006 AdVita Foundation initiated fund-raising for
the treatment of Renata Maksudova.
13.12.2006 Marika Minasyan came to St. Petersburg for consultation,
examination and development of further treatment strategy.
11.12.2006 AdVita Foundation initiated fund-raising for
the treatment of Sasha Berbek.
08.12.2006 Dariko Salia needs help with paying for antifungal
medications and examinations.
08.12.2006 AdVita Foundation initiated fund-raising for
the treatment of Natalia Temnikova.
08.12.2006 A bone marrow donor for Dima Bugranov was found, but
the search is not yet paid for.
06.12.2006 AdVita Foundation initiated fund-raising for
the treatment of Igor Andrianov.
05.12.2006 Nastia Matushkina needs a package of Valcyte that
costs 60,000 rubles.
05.12.2006 Dasha Shutova needs donated blood of I(+) type.
05.12.2006 Horen Melidonyan was discharged from the hospital
due to lack of space. He now has to visit the hospital twice a day for infusion of medications. He needs help with transportation
or paying for taxis.
03.12.2006 Dariko Salia's fungal lesion in lungs had grown in size. She
may need 60 bottles of Ampholip that costs 5,700 rubles a bottle.
03.12.2006 On December 1st, during the taping of the TV program "Real Hero"
(shown by Channel 5), a million-ruble donation was awarded to AdVita fund by GazpromNeftInvest company.
We are sincerely grateful to OOO GazpromNeftInvest for their decision to help our patients!
We would also like to thank the following people personally: Alexandra Matveeva, general producer of Channel 5, as well as creators
of "Real Hero" program - Vera Ogurtsova, Irina Peitsahovskaya and Yulia Volkova, and everyone else involved in
taping the show.
The money will be distributed to the patients in most need, and will be spent on purchasing thrombocyte systems, antifungal drugs
and urgent searches for the bone marrow donors. The final decision will be made after the consultation with the doctors.
The "Real Hero" program will be broadcast on December 22nd on Channel 5. In addition, between December 1st and
January 10th, charitable fund "Children and Parents against Cancer" will accept donations via sms. If you would like to
make sms-donation, you need to send sms message with word “äîáðî” to number 4747, and you will be charged approximately
35 rubles.
The money collected during the charitable marathon, will be distributed by the special commission that includes representatives from
the City Committee on Labor and Social Security, Channel 5 employees and members of non-profit organizations.
29.11.2006 Zhenya Stepanov urgently needs 20 bottles of the Ampholip,
which cost 5,700 rubles a bottle.
28.11.2006 Kirill Vazhenin needs help with purchasing antitumor
drug Roncoleukin. The course of treatment is approximately 6,000 rubles.
27.11.2006 Nikita Petrachkov was diagnosed with a very aggressive form
of hepatitis (J) and needs with treatment with Roferon or Intron.
27.11.2006 Nastia Matushkina needs help with paying for various tests.
22.11.2006 Pati Omarova was allowed to go home for two weeks.
22.11.2006 Mubarak was operated and the rest of
his tumor was removed. He still needs help with paying for supporting medications and nutrition.
22.11.2006 Alesha Grigoriev needs help with paying for his
nutrition and visits to the hospital in St. Petersburg.
22.11.2006 Masha Kokshina was discharged from the clinic.
Her family needs help with paying for the apartment rent.
22.11.2006 Levon Karagezyn urgently needs 20,000 rubles for PET scan.
15.11.2006 AdVita Foundation initiated fund-raising for
the treatment of Sergey Shoroh.
10.11.2006 Yulia Krivova still needs blood donations.
10.11.2006 Nastia Matushkina developed a severe
form of pneumonia in both lungs.
10.11.2006 Dasha Shutova is scheduled for the bone marrow
transplant on December 7th. However, she still lacks the money to pay for delivery of transplant.
30.10.2006 Alesha Grigoriev completed the main therapy protocol.
25.10.2006 Yulia Krivova tested positive for aspergillosis. It is highly likely
that she will need Cancidas in the post-transplant period.
24.10.2006 Masha Kokshina will need an air ionizer with a
special filter for fungi and viruses that allows maintaining a sterile regime in home conditions.
24.10.2006 Yulia Krivova is starting pre-transplantation chemotherapy.
She needs a lot of donated blood.
12.10.2006 Alina Kolovanova was discharged from the hospital.
She is going home today.
11.10.2006 Dasha Salia's condition worsened.
She has an acute pain in her hip joint, and she is suspected to have aseptic necrosis due
to fungal sepsis.
10.10.2006 Masha Kokshina needs to find a place to live. She also urgently
needs blood donations.
10.10.2006 AdVita Foundation initiated fund-raising for
the treatment of Dima Burganov.
04.10.2006 A countrywide hotline dedicated to pediatric
oncology issues began its work in St. Petersburg. The telephone number of the hotline
is 8-800-200-0609. All calls to this number are free for all residents
of Russia.
When you call the hotline, you can receive a consultation from oncologists,
psychologists, legal professionals and other specialists regarding the following
issues:
- Emerging medical technologies for treatment of oncological and hematological
diseases,
- Hospital admission qualifications and admission process,
- Medical facilities providing diagnostics and treatment of oncological and
hematological diseases,
- Organizations offering nursing help,
- The process for applying for disability and benefits for disabled,
- Rights to receive free medical care and medications,
- Supporting organizations (charitable organizations, societies and parents'
committees).
The hotline is the first and only project of its kind in Russia. It addresses both
informational and psychological dimensions of oncological problems and as such is a
unique and effective experiment, according to both psychology and oncology experts.
The establishment of hotline was initiated by Igor Shats, professor, the leading doctor
of Medical and Psychological Clinic in St. Petersburg. Professor Margarita Belogurova
oversees medical issues reported to the hotline.
The call center is located at the pediatric oncology unit of City hospital No. 31 in
St. Petersburg, which is a leading clinic in Northwest region of Russia.
The pediatric oncology hotline is a part of "We are with you" project, which
aims at providing psychological help to patients with cancer, their families and
medical professionals. This project has been organized by Happy World Fund in
cooperation with leading mental health research organizations and psychologists of
St. Petersburg.
26.09.2006 Alesha Levantuev is starting radiation therapy.
He urgently needs Dipeptiven (6 bottles with 100 ml each). A bottle of this medicine costs 2,000 rubles.
18.09.2006 Maxim Chistov was diagnosed with a relapse of aspergillosis.
He needs another course of treatment with Cancidas.
15.09.2006 Anton Terekhov started pre-transplantation
chemotherapy. Starting Monday, Anton will need blood donations (group I(+)).
06.09.2006 Dariko Salia developed
a new infection in her lung. All the previously used medications
have proven to be ineffective. Dariko's doctors decided to prescribe her Cancidas,
the cost of which is $700 per bottle. Dariko will need 15 of them.
06.09.2006 On September 8th
Alesha Grigoriev will have a computer tomography.
The cost of the test is approximately 12,000 rubles.
06.09.2006 Ira Reshetova needs
computer tomography test that costs 5,000 rubles.
31.08.2006 Alesha Levantuev needs to take
12 courses of Roaccutane.
31.08.2006 Yulia Ovchinnikova needs to collect 20,000 rubles
for the next chemotherapy block.
18.07.2006 We need to urgently find at least a part of the amount to pay for the donor
search for Dasha Shutova. If money is not collected, the search will be put on hold.
18.07.2006 Nastia Matushkina needs to take costly medication,
Vfend, to prevent reoccurrence of aspergillosis.
18.07.2006 Maxim Chistov Valcyte to fight cytomegalovirus.
10.07.2006 AdVita Foundation initiated fund-raising for
the treatment of Dasha Shutova.
15.06.2006 AdVita Foundation initiated fund-raising for
the treatment of Ira Reshetova.
14.06.2006 Alesha Levantuev is
being prepared for bone marrow autotransplant.
01.06.2006 We ask you to support Lena Kivlina emotionally.
01.06.2006 A radio show, Charity and Mass Media, was
recorded at Platforma club as part of Club Day at Radio Liberty series. The show
was hosted by Elena Fanailova.
The following people took part in the discussion:
- Margarita Belogurova, head of Pediatric Oncology department of hospital No. 31
- Alexandra Matveeva, General Producer of State TV & Radio channel, 5th Channel
- Maxim Polyakov, Assistant Director of Business Development, 5th Channel
- Alexei Smirnov, chief editor of "Chronicles" newspaper
- Daniel Lurie, chief editor of "Afisha. St. Petersburg" magazine
- Yulia Belomlinskaya, journalist and culturologist
- Maria Ostrovskaya, Director of Perspectives, a no-profit organization
- Lyubov Arkus, chief editor of "Seans" magazine
- Elena Gracheva, volunteer at AdVita charitable fund, a member of
editorial group of "Seans" magazine
During the show, the discussion focused on communication methods among various mass
media and charitable organizations, as well as attitudes towards charity in Russian
society today.
The show will be aired on Radio Liberty on Sunday, June 4th at 11 am and 11 pm, and
rerun on Monday, June 5th at 2 pm.
Radio Liberty in St. Petersburg is broadcasted at 7124 AM.
29.05.2006 Dariko Salia was found to have two abscesses in
her brain. She also need to repay her debt for Vfend.
29.05.2006 Alesha Levantuev urgently needs donated blood (any type)
for his bone marrow autotransplant operation.
29.05.2006 The Regional health Administration of Leningradskaya oblast still has not transferred the
money for Alesha Grigoriev and Danya Timoshkin treatment.
Both boys need your help to continue their treatment.
17.05.2006 AdVita Foundation initiated fund-raising for
the treatment of Maxim Schyurkin.
05.05.2006 AdVita Foundation initiated fund-raising for
the treatment of Pati Omarova and Lena Kivlina.
27.04.2006 Aishan Mirzalieva
was hospitalized with severe stomach pains. Her liver is enlarged. Until Monday, she will stay at the hospital (it will cost 7,150 rubles
as her family has to pay for any medical care). The cause of stomachaches and further treatment are being studied.
26.04.2006 Vladimir Krasikov’s family and co-workers collected 15,000
euros for the bone marrow donor search. He still needs help with paying for medications in post-transplant period.
26.04.2006 Alesha Levantuev lost two liters of blood during
an operation. He urgently needs blood donors (any blood type).
26.04.2006 Yulia Kokareva
was discharged from the hospital. Her treatment is over!
25.04.2006 AdVita Foundation initiated fund-raising for
the treatment of Nikita Petrachkov.
25.04.2006 We would like to thank everyone who responded and helped
Misha Chervinsky. Thanks to Dmitry, Vassily
and two anonymous donors we were able to collect 18,400 rubles. Now Misha has enough Hepsera to last until the end of May.
To complete the course of treatment, we need to buy this medicine for five more months, which will
cost $2,900 (five months * $580).
24.04.2006 This week we have to pay off our debt for Vfend for
Dariko Salia. Currently, we lack 53,000 rubles.
18.04.2006 Azat Fattakhov is a 20-year old boy, currently staying at the bone marrow transplant clinic.
His BMT is scheduled for April 18th. He came from Ufa to receive related bone marrow transplant from his mother.
Azat and his mother do not know anybody in St. Petersburg and they need help finding blood donors. Azat's mother is a doctor,
so their income is very limited and they cannot afford to pay for thrombocytes (4,900 rubles a pool).
Azat has I (-) blood type. In addition, during the next week, Vika Bystrova will be admitted to the pediatric unit of BMT clinic,
also for related bone marrow transplant. She too will need blood donations of I (-) type.
Those interested in donating their blood for Azat and Vika: please contact our information line
at +7(901)300-0025 or email donor@advita.ru.
06.04.2006 Thirteen years had passed since Misha was found to have Stage IV
abdominal lymphoma. Several times he was between life and death; he underwent two operations, intensive chemotherapy
and he won! He is now in a stable remission and has an encouraging prognosis. However, we have to deal with a new problem.
As a result of numerous blood transfusions and operations, Misha got infected with hepatitis B and C viruses.
For a long time, the therapy was unsuccessful. It is a long story, but I managed to find the money to pay for Lamivudine
and interferon-alpha, as well as Combivir, and after the therapy, Misha got hepatitis C under control. In order to treat hepatitis B,
Misha needs therapy with Hepsera (adefovir) for at least a year. The cost of medication is 15,000 rubles a month.
Misha received 4-month supply of Hepsera as a donation, but we need to pay for the remaining six months. Misha's doctor
believes that he could develop cancer again due to his untreated viral infection. If he gets liver cancer, it will be a
death sentence. The therapy we were offered, however, brings complete cure to some patients.
Please help Misha Chervinsky.
28.03.2006 Violetta Moteva needs to take Zovirax on a long-term basis.
27.03.2006 Maxim Chistov was diagnosed with aspergillosis, a
very dangerous fungal infection.
21.03.2006 AdVita Foundation initiated fund-raising for
the treatment of Masha Kokshina.
17.02.2006
Kirill Vazhenin feels well, and he may be transferred for remaining treatment and rehabilitation to
the hospital No. 31. Unfortunately, federal budget does not pay for many expensive medications, which Kirill will
soon need.
15.02.2006 On February 15, International Childhood Cancer Day, volunteers of Advita
fund and "Eva", "St. Petersburg parents" and "Missionary Forum of deacon Kuraev" Internet
forums distributed over 5,500 flyers to the visitors of movie theater chain Kronverk-Cinema. The flyers contained information
about the ways to help children with oncological diseases in St. Petersburg.
Advita fund is sincerely grateful to
- Irina Gurina, for flyer design and help with its printing,
- Eduard Pichugin and Evgeniya Barkanova, for help with organizing this event with Kronverk-Cinema,
- All volunteers who distributed the flyers in six movie theaters: Sofia Aleksandrova, Mikhail Ananiev, Sofia Andreeva,
Daria Bureeva, Elena Venzel, Ekaterina Volkova, Elena Gracheva, Elizaveta Dmitrieva, Sergey Ignatov, Alexander Ikonnikov,
Elena Kazunina, Elena Kuzakhmetova, Anna and Fedor Kruzenshtern, Anna Makarova, Elizaveta Nikonova, Vadim Nikiforov,
Vera Pushnaya, Tatiana Smirnova, Valeria Sonnikova, Margarita Tarasova, Yaroslava Tsallager, Alexei Chizhikov,
Agnia Shamshur, Natalia Shvedovchenko, as well as Sergey and Vladimir.
08.02.2006 On February 4th the Lensovet Theater staged a performance, Oscar and the Lady in Pink,
based on a play by E. E. Schmitt about a child who is dying from leukemia. The performance was a one-woman show by
Alisa Freindlikh directed by V.B. Pazi. After the play, the volunteers of Advita Fund and "St. Petersburg parents"
forum distributed close to 500 flyers to the theatergoers and answered their questions. The flyers contained information about
the ways to help children with cancer that live in St. Petersburg.
We are deeply grateful to Alisa Brunovna Freindlikh and Vladislav Borisovich Pazi for a wonderful show and for the permission use
their stage. We would also like to thank Galina Andreevna Berezovikova and Larisa Izmailova, volunteers from "Human and
his faith" Fund, for making the model and help with printing the flyers.
04.02.2006 The bone marrow transplant
to Maxim Chistov is scheduled on February 21.
26.01.2006 Center of Haematology initiated fund-raising for
the treatment of Anton Terekhov.
26.01.2006 AdVita Foundation initiated fund-raising for
the treatment of Kseniya Afonina.
06.01.2006 Dasha Vranchan is in a very
serious condition and needs help.
05.01.2006 The bone marrow transplant to Kirill Vazhenin
is scheduled for the second half of January.
05.01.2006 Violetta Moteva was
discharged from the BMT department of State Medical University and
transferred to the Children's hospital No.1. Violetta and her mom are
looking for an apartment.
26.04.2007 The bone marrow transplantation clinic had run out of Vfend, Valcyte and Cymevene. Several of our patients currently
need those medications. They are 
