30.12.2007 Serezha Kazarezov
recovered from the transplantation and was discharged for outpatient monitoring.
30.12.2007 Artem Kan needs three
bottles of Oncaspar that cost 62,000 rubles each for the next three chemotherapy
blocks.
30.12.2007 Vadim Vinogradov was
hospitalized at BMT clinic for preparation to transplantation. His family needs
help with paying for current medications, medical supplies and
for apartment rent.
30.12.2007 After lengthy consultations, a decision
was made to replace Sergey Zharkov's haploidentical
transplantation from his brother with transplantation from partially matching
unrelated donor. The transplantation was scheduled for January 18th based
on the donor's request. Sergey urgently needs help with paying
for delivery of transplant.
30.12.2007 Dima Ivantsov will be
hospitalized at BMT clinic on January 3rd.
24.12.2007 AdVita Foundation initiated fund-raising for
the treatment of Sergey Kazarezov.
24.12.2007 The Mycology Research Institute is closing the
illness histories of all its patients until January 10th. For that
reason, Anar Mamedov needs 45 capsules of Vfend
(200 mg each), or 4 packages, that cost 28,300 rubles each. The help is
needed urgently!
23.12.2007 Maxim Maksimov
was discharged from the hospital for the outpatient monitoring.
23.12.2007 Katya Baranova
needs Diflucan for the next two months. Each daily dose costs 400 rubles.
23.12.2007 Sveta Nosova
needs help with buying hemocomponents and for paying apartment rent.
23.12.2007 Sveta Gavrysh
still needs help with buying current medications, paying apartment rent,
and help from blood donors with blood type I(+).
23.12.2007 Anna Chistyakova needs
help with buying hemocomponents after the autotransplantation.
23.12.2007 Sergey Dzyuba received
a bill for radiation therapy, which totaled 46,200 rubles. He is currently receiving
radiation under the guarantee letter we have prepared. Sergey is feeling better.
23.12.2007 Vanya Mamai still needs
help with buying Cancidas.
23.12.2007 Anya Scherbenko and her
mom are flying to Hadassah hospital for the scheduled testing.
23.12.2007 Sasha Zhukov needs an
installation of a port that costs 15,000 rubles. Sasha's mom is undergoing the
second chemotherapy course.
18.12.2007 Dear friends! AdVita charitable fund would like to
invite you to our Christmas auction
(auction's booklet, 4.66 mb)
benefiting children with cancer who receive treatment
at the hospitals of St. Petersburg.
The auction will be part of "Peterburg", annual art exhibition in St. Petersburg,
and will take place on January 12, 2008 at Manezh Central Exhibition Hall on
Isaakievskaya square, 1.
The auction will start at 3 pm. All winning bids have to be paid for in cash. The music
program for the guests of the auction will be prepared by the young musicians, laureates
of Vladimir Spivakov International Charitable Fund.
As in the last year, the auction items will be offered by the professional artists,
sculptors, doll makers, photographers, ceramic artists, as well as children who receive
treatment for cancer and young artists from Kitezh, Children's art school. We will
publish the catalog of the auction items in the next few days. The lot prices range
from 1,000 rubles to 80,000 rubles, with an average price of 5,000 rubles.
Dear friends! It is very important for us that the auction has good attendance. January
and February are traditionally financially difficult months for the clinics, as the
medications purchased from the last year's budget are used up, and the new supplies
start coming in only in the beginning of March. However, the treatments cannot be
stopped even for a day! For the patients this "empty" period is a real
catastrophe. The budget money is not there, and the charitable donations dry up as
well in January, after people have spent on gifts and holidays. We would like to ask you: when you are preparing for the Christmas and New Year
celebrations, please remember those who need help, those who will spend the holidays
at the hospitals.
We really ask everyone who can help to come to our auction and buy one of the lots.
Please help us with spreading the word about our auction. Tell your friends, relatives
and co-workers. We cannot let our patients go without treatment.
We would like to thank everyone who helped organize the auction: all the donors, Kelly
Services – St. Petersburg and Alexei Zelentsov and Anna Ustiyants personally, Romir
Monitoring Peterburg and Anna Hmeleva personally, Larisa Skobkina, curator of the annual
Peterburg art exhibit in Manezh Central Exhibition Hall, Nonna Yanovskaya, representative
of Vladimir Spivakov International Charitable Fund, TSKP-Northwest and Igor Shuvalov
personally, Lori photo bank and Irina Terentieva personally.
A brochure about our auction (a catalog will also be available soon) can be requested
by calling Elena Gracheva at 8-901-30-88-728, or emailing lenagr@mail.ru
Thank you very much in advance!
18.12.2007 Timur Pikkiev needs 60,000 rubles to
purchase medications for the second chemotherapy block. It will start on January 8th, and the
medications have to be purchased prior to the New Year.
17.12.2007 Danya Petrov's autotransplantation is
scheduled for December 21.
17.12.2007 Andrei Kodolov was discharged home for outpatient
monitoring. He feels well.
17.12.2007 Denis Alenichin's transplantation
is scheduled for February 5th.
17.12.2007 Volodya Rusakov's transplantation
is scheduled for January 16th.
17.12.2007 Vadim Vinogradov's transplantation
is scheduled for January 15th.
17.12.2007 Svetlana Nosova's second autotransplantation
is scheduled for December 18th. She still needs help of blood donors.
17.12.2007 Nastia Hapchyuk’s transplantation of her
mom's cells was scheduled for December 19th. She will need help of many blood donors.
17.12.2007 Vitya Kovalenko needs two courses of high-dosage chemotherapy.
The total cost of two courses is 120,000 rubles.
17.12.2007 A bone marrow donor for Dima Ivantsov was found,
and the transplantation was scheduled for February. As of now, he lacks 10,000 euros for the donor search
and 2,500 euros for the delivery of transplant
15.12.2007 On December 12th as part of the Kind Piter charitable festival,
AdVita fund volunteers collected diapers, cleaning supplies and monetary donations for the pediatric oncology
units of Children's hospital No.1 and city hospital No.31. The event took place at Lenta stores at pr.
Energetikov, 16 and Hasanskaya, 17/1, from 4 pm to 8 pm. During the four hours, we collected 65 packages
of disposable blankets, 57 packs of wipes, 35 diapers boxes, 56 laundry soap boxes, 50 other various
brands of cleaning agents (Fairy, Domestos, Pemolux and other), as well as rubber gloves, trash bags,
sponges, baby lotions, shampoo, soap, toothpaste and other supplies. In addition, we raised close to
15,000 rubles at the special collection cans with the emblem of the festival. We also distributed flyers
with information about blood donations and our fund.
The parents of our patients are very grateful to all the residents of St. Petersburg who participated in
the event (close to 250 people). We would like to thank TRNO for giving us the opportunity to participate
in Kind Peter charitable festival. We are also very grateful to our volunteers who worked at Lenta stores
that evening: Nadezhda Milenina, Diana Tsarbaeva, Elena Nikolaeva, Anna Piak, Nina Birka, Anna Scherbakova,
Natalia Polkanova, Aleksander Ten, Svetlana Markina, Oksana Smogileva, Sergei Dragomiretsky, Sergei Shorokh,
Natalia Patrysheva, Nakolai Godyna, Alexander Abakumov, Natalia Temnikova, Lyubov Krutitskaya, Anna Kulakova,
Anna Cherkasskaya, Maria Slavyanskaya, Elena Gracheva and Anna Markovich.
We would like to thank Diana Tsarbaeva, Dmitry Sineoky, Anna and Vlad Kulakov and Spartak Karagezian for
organizing delivery of the collected items to the hospitals.
15.12.2007 Elena Romanova was
prescribed a chemotherapy course, which will cost 66,500 rubles. The therapy should
start as soon as possible.
15.12.2007 Anya Scherbenko was found
a matching donor! Israeli doctors are waiting for her for the required testing.
13.12.2007 Anar Mamedov was hospitalized
at Mycology Research Institute with possible aspergillosis.
13.12.2007 Natasha Myasnikova was transferred
to Mycology Research Institute for further testing.
13.12.2007 Nastia Hapchyuk was
transferred to BMT clinic where she is preparing for haploidentical transplantation
from her mom.
13.12.2007 Dariko Salia will undergo
restorative operation on her joint at the University clinic in Tubingen. The operation
will cost 16,200 euros.
13.12.2007 Kirill Vazhenin hospitalized for a
chemotherapy course.
13.12.2007 Alina Kolovanova came for planned
examination. She is doing well.
13.12.2007 Angelina Radko will be discharged
home for supporting therapy.
13.12.2007 Lisa Belova started the
second chemotherapy block. She needs a chair with adjustable back and help with buying
food and personal hygiene items.
10.12.2007 Renata Maksudovawill need a bottle of Ampholip a day for the next several
months. A bottle of the drug costs 6,000 rubles.
08.12.2007 Katya Baranova and Yulia Larionova are
discharged from the clinic to outpatient monitoring. Yulia still needs help with paying apartment rent.
08.12.2007 Vitya Kovalenko is returning to a clinic in Murmansk for
two more chemotherapy courses.
08.12.2007 Dima Naumov had a relapse, and he has blasts in his blood again.
Dmitry and his family need help with buying blood components, current medication and paying for apartment rent.
05.12.2007 Anya Kramarenko urgently needs to purchase
Roaccutane for the next course of treatment. The cost of a course is 5,000 rubles.
05.12.2007 Renata Maksudova was prescribed Roferon therapy three times a
week for the next few months. A cartridge for Roferon foam that lasts two weeks costs 7,000 rubles.
05.12.2007 Natasha Myasnikova needs several packages of Vfend.
Each package costs 28,350 rubles.
27.11.2007 Kolya Haritonov
was operated and his tumors were removed.
27.11.2007 Vitya Kovalenko
returned to BMT clinic for autotransplantation. Vitya came by himself and he really
needs help.
24.11.2007 Nastia Hapchyuk
urgently needs 30 bottles of Cancidas that cost 17,000 rubles each.
24.11.2007 Anar Mamedov
was discharged from the clinic for the outpatient monitoring.
24.11.2007 The search for the donor for
Volodya Rusakov is paid for in full. A donor for
Volodya was found!
24.11.2007 Oleg Ostapenko
needs CT scan that costs 12,000 rubles.
24.11.2007 Nikita Petrachkov
needs 5,000 rubles for planned MRI scan.
24.11.2007 Natasha Myasnikova
suffers from a complication, loss of vision on one of her eyes.
For now the reason for that is unclear.
24.11.2007 Polina Chesnokova
was discharged from the BMT clinic and transferred to an outpatient monitoring.
21.11.2007 AdVita Foundation initiated fund-raising for
the treatment of Yulia Larionova.
20.11.2007 Based on the results of CT scan,
Andrei Kazakov is in complete remission!
19.11.2007 Svetlana Speshilova will be hospitalized at BMT clinic on
November 21. Her transplantation is scheduled for November 30th. Sveta will need help of blood donors
with blood type II(+).
19.11.2007 The donor search for Denis Alenichkin
is paid for in full.
19.11.2007 Renata Maksudova needs 20 bottles of Ampholip that
cost 6,000 rubles each.
19.11.2007 Vanya Mamai urgently needs 10 bottles of Cancidas that
cost 17,000 rubles each.
19.11.2007 Nastia Hapchyuk responded to
therapy and entered remission.
18.11.2007 Svetlana Gavrysh's transplantation is scheduled for December 4th
and she will be admitted to clinic on November 26th. We urgently need to raise 2,500 euros for delivery of transplant!
15.11.2007 On Saturday, Tanya Radaeva is returning to Tomsk to
be monitored by local hematologists.
15.11.2007 The treatment of Yulia Kokareva is now over, and she was
discharged from the hospital.
13.11.2007 Vitya Kovalenko will come to BMT clinic in St. Petersburg for testing and
treatment. He urgently needs help with renting an apartment.
13.11.2007 Alesha Grigoriev had a scheduled MRI scan and his remission was confirmed.
13.11.2007 Elina Lebedeva had bone marrow autotransplantation today. She
is now in a serious condition and needs Albumin.
13.11.2007 Serezha Salamonov lost a lot of weight and has no
appetite. He is constantly depressed and tired from the long-term effects of his illness. If someone could give Serezha a laptop
computer to allow him to study or use Internet while he is at the hospital, it would be great! A donor for Serezha is not yet
found even though a search was started almost a year ago.
13.11.2007 Svetlana Nosova is returning to St. Petersburg for testing
and transplantation. She needs help with paying apartment rent again.
13.11.2007 Artem Kim is undergoing the most difficult chemotherapy
block. He will need help from blood donors with blood type IV(+).
13.11.2007 AdVita Foundation initiated fund-raising for
the treatment of Vassily Drozdov.
12.11.2007 AdVita Foundation initiated fund-raising for
the treatment of Nastia Borovkova.
10.11.2007 Levon Karagezyan was referred for PET scan and CT scan,
which will cost approximately 20,000 rubles.
10.11.2007 Masha Rybakova still needs help with buying current medications
and paying apartment rent. She is still in critical condition.
10.11.2007 Iliya Bazanov completed course of treatment and returned
to Yaroslavl. He is in complete remission and feels well.
10.11.2007 Tanya Radaeva still needs blood transfusions.
09.11.2007 Sasha Spivak is feeling better. Sasha's mom is practically
out of money for food and other living expenses.
08.11.2007 A charitable fund Happy World purchased full course of Pegasus for Stas Evdokimov!
07.11.2007 Vadim Vinogradov was found a 100% matching donor! Due to his condition,
the transplantation needs to be performed as soon as possible. AdVita fund is announcing an urgent fundraising to pay the registry for the
work they already performed.
07.11.2007 Renata Maksudova needs blood transfusions from blood donors with
blood type I(-), III(-) or IV(-).
07.11.2007 Kirlll Vazhenin was found to have another tumor in his kidney.
04.11.2007 Vanya Mamai is now in a serious
condition in the intensive care unit. He has cytopenia and sepsis. He has all needed
medications, but requires help from blood donors.
30.10.2007 Svetlana Speshilova's
transplantation was scheduled for November 30th. She still needs help with
paying for transplant delivery. In addition, this week she needs to purchase
plane tickets for 20,000 rubles.
29.10.2007 AdVita Foundation initiated fund-raising for
the treatment of Ivan Mamai and Kolya Ananiev.
24.10.2007 Based on the MRI results, Zhenya Tikhonov has positive changes.
24.10.2007 Masha Kokshina feels much better. Her eye opened and her vision is recovering.
22.10.2007 The control exanimations confirmed Lena Kivlina's remission.
22.10.2007 Based on the control examination results, the blood
supply to Levon Karagezyan's, lungs had fully recovered.
22.10.2007 Lera Kerber still needs
help with purchasing Temodal and Carboplatin and paying hospital bills.
22.10.2007 Konstantin Knyazhischev
needs Vfend. The cost of a weekly course (14 capsules) is 28,000 rubles.
22.10.2007 Yulia Kokareva completed
the last chemotherapy course.
22.10.2007 Masha Rybakova still needs
help with purchasing Ampholip and paying apartment rent.
22.10.2007 Denis Trufanov feels well and
was transferred to outpatient monitoring. He and his family will need financial support
for current medications, tests and apartment rent totaling 25,000 - 30,000 rubles a
month.
22.10.2007 Andrei Ezhov needs to
have a therapy with polyoxidonium that cost 2,500 rubles.
Andrei feels relatively well.
22.10.2007 Danya Patent's
course of treatment was completed and he was
discharged home for supporting therapy.
22.10.2007 Katya Baranova,
Svetlana Speshilova and Sasha Pushkin
need 2,500 euros each for delivery of transplants from European collection center.
For now, only Katya Baranova's transplantation was scheduled.
It will take place on November 13th.
22.10.2007 Svetlana Nosova still
needs help with paying apartment rent in St. Petersburg.
22.10.2007 Lena Gavrilyuk needs
therapy with Diflucan and Heptral. She feels relatively well.
22.10.2007 Vadim Vinogradov has
blasts in his blood again. The money for the donor search has
to be raised as soon as possible.
22.10.2007 Anar Mamedov needs
help from blood donors and help with paying
apartment rent.
12.10.2007 Renata Maksudova is scheduled for six chemotherapy sessions. All that time she
will need to take Vfend and Ampholip. One package of Vfend in capsules of 200 mg costs 28,000 rubles and it lasts a week. A bottle of Ampholip costs 6,000
rubles, and Renata needs a bottle a day. Therefore, Renata needs 60,000 rubles a week for the next four months.
She also needs help from blood donors with blood type III(-) and IV(-).
11.10.2007 Nastia Hapchyuk was found to have blasts during scheduled
examination. She is now at Children's hospital No.1 where she receives anti-relapse chemotherapy.
11.10.2007 Dima Naumov's leukocyte count started to grow and reached 1.7.
He is in moderately serious condition. He has high temperature, mucositis and severe fatigue.
11.10.2007 Konstantin Kniazhischev's post-transplantation recovery is
proceeding without complications.
11.10.2007 Denis Trufanov still constantly needs help from blood donors with blood type I(-).
11.10.2007 Maxim Maximov was purchased Atgam for the full course of treatment.
11.10.2007 Galina Alieva will need another auto transplantation.
11.10.2007 Svetlana Nosova needs help from blood donors and help with
buying thrombocytes concentration.
11.10.2007 Dasha Prokopenko completed main course of treatment. She and
her mom still need help with paying apartment rent.
11.10.2007 Dasha Savelieva completed her treatment in Dortmund and
returned home to Zheleznogorsk.
11.10.2007 Vitya Kovalenko's bone marrow transplantation
was postponed. He will receive additional chemotherapy in Murmansk.
03.10.2007 Alina Lysenko needs help with paying for taxi to take her
from city hospital No.31 to Oncology hospital on Berezovaya alley. She will start radiation therapy this week.
03.10.2007 Natasha Myasnikova needs help from blood donors with blood
type II(-) and help with paying for a caretaker (10,000 rubles during each block).
03.10.2007 Vika, Lena Smelova's sister, has been placed with a family
that agreed to take her for the duration of Lena's stay at the hospital. The family will also take in Lena and her mom when they are on the breaks
between chemotherapy blocks.
03.10.2007 Masha Ulianova needs 30 bottles of Cancidas with total cost of almost 500,000 rubles.
She also needs Maxipime and Neupogen. In addition, Masha will need help from blood donors with blood type I(+).
03.10.2007 Anya Kostygova will soon need help with transportation. She needs physical
therapy to train her leg with implant, which requires trips from city hospital No.31 to Vladimirsky prospect and back.
03.10.2007 Yulia Kokareva's family needs 10,000 rubles to pay for medications and hospital bill.
23.09.2007 Lena Kivlina urgently
needs CT scan and PET scan that cost 28,500 rubles. Please help Lena!
20.09.2007 Today, on the 8th anniversary of death of Raisa Gorbacheva, a
new Raisa Gorbacheva Center of Pediatric Hematology and Transplantology was officially opened at Pavlov State Medical University.
18.09.2007 AdVita Foundation initiated fund-raising for
the treatment of Lena Smelova.
16.09.2007 Lena Gavrilyuk,
Natasha Temnikova and Igor Andrianov
went through the planned examinations. Their condition is stable and they
feel relatively well. These patients were switched to Diflucan from Vfend.
They need a capsule of 150 mg of Diflucan a day, and it costs 380 rubles.
16.09.2007 Sergei Zharkov will
receive haploidentical transplant from his brother. Sergei is now receiving
chemotherapy at city hospital No. 31. It will be administered until we are able
to pay for the cylinders for cleaning of the donated bone marrow cells. The cost of
a cylinder is 6,350 euros.
16.09.2007 After the bone marrow transplantation,
Denis Trufanov needs help from blood donors
with blood type I(-).
16.09.2007 After the bone marrow transplantation,
Konstantin Knyazhischev needs help from blood donors
with blood type I(+).
16.09.2007 Renata Maksudova needs
therapy with expensive medications (Vfend and Ampholip). The daily cost of these drugs
is 16,000 rubles.
16.09.2007 Mansura Guseinova's
condition worsened as her GVHD went out of control. She suffers from intestinal
bleeding and sepsis. Mansura needs many expensive drugs, such as Cancidas, Pentaglobin
and Zenapax. She also needs help from blood donors with blood type I(-).
16.09.2007 Based on the results of the planned examination,
Kirill Vazhenin is in remission, although he still shows signs
of insignificant skin GVHD.
09.09.2007 Anya Kostygina
is feeling better. She was transferred from intensive care unit to a regular room.
09.09.2007 Renata Maksudova's
condition worsened. Her lymph nodes are enlarged and she has a lot of fluid in
her lungs. She is hospitalized at BMT clinic.
09.09.2007 Dasha Prokopenko and her
mom need to rent an apartment. Please help Dasha.
07.09.2007 AdVita Foundation initiated fund-raising for
the treatment of Georgy Pak.
04.09.2007 AdVita Foundation initiated fund-raising for
the treatment of Ilya Bazanov.
04.09.2007 Mansura Guseinova was
moved into non-sterile zone of the hospital. Her skin GVHD is being
kept under control.
04.09.2007 Denis Trufanov was hospitalized at
BMT clinic to prepare for transplantation.
04.09.2007 Galina Alieva needs to
take a large number of medications, including Zometa that costs 14,000 - 19,000
rubles a package.
02.09.2007 Sasha Spivak completed
radiation therapy and is now taking Temodal.
02.09.2007 Mansura Guseinova was
allowed to go for walks. However, she started showing signs of skin GVHD. Overall,
she is in a satisfactory condition.
02.09.2007 Yulia Evko was refused
related liver transplantation in Russia. Yulia's documents are now being prepared for
consultation with Western transplantologists. For now, her parents took Yulia
home to Krasnoyarsk.
02.09.2007 Masha Ulianova needs help
from blood donors with blood type I(+). If you would like to help Masha, please
call our blood donation line at +7 (901) 3-0000-25.
02.09.2007 Iliya Bazanov and
Serezha Bolshakov need help from blood donors with blood
type II(+). If you would like to help Iliya and Serezha, please call our blood
donation line at +7 (901) 3-0000-25.
31.08.2007 Gulrukh Mahmudhon's tumor is
continuing to metastasize. Her condition is rapidly deteriorating. Neither chemotherapy
or radiation therapy had any result. We urgently need to raise the money
(20,000 rubles) for Gulrukh, her mother and sister so that they can by air tickets
to their hometown.
30.08.2007 We would like to ask our supporters Zhenya and
Vitaly Alexandrov to email
site administrator or
call +7 (921) 924-7752.
30.08.2007 Polina Chesnokova's bone marrow
transplantation was successful.
29.08.2007 Oleg Ostapenko completed
planned examination. The CT scans of his brain and spinal cord show positive
changes. His cyst is gone, while the tumor in the brain stem had shrunk and
retains very little contrast agent.
29.08.2007 We urgently need to find money for delivery of
transplant for Dmitry Naumov. We only have 10 days
to raise 2,500 euros.
28.08.2007 A group of concerned citizens and AdVita charitable fund are announcing the start of a charitable action
"Open Your Heart to Children" and would like to ask everyone for participation. The goal of
the action is to raise funds for installation of new windows at the newborn pathology and leukemia chemotherapy units of Children's Hospital No.1.
The total needed is 500,000 rubles.
27.08.2007 Maxim Maximov needs therapy with Atgam. The course of treatment requires 15
packages with 5 ampoules in each package. The cost of a package varies from 28,000 rubles to 34,000 rubles.
27.08.2007 Masha Rybakova will still need 2 bottles of Ampholip a day during the next
month. Each bottle costs 6,000 rubles.
27.08.2007 Konstantin Kniazhischev was hospitalized at BMT clinic for bone marrow transplantation.
27.08.2007 Oleg Ostapenko came for a planned examination. He will be billed in full for all the tests.
27.08.2007 Dmitry Naumov will come for transplantation at BMT clinic in St. Petersburg tomorrow.
However, he still lacks money to pay for delivery of transplant (2,500 euros) and he has no place to live in St. Petersburg. Please help Dmitry!
27.08.2007 Nastia Hapchuk’s bone marrow transplantation was rescheduled for the
end of September.
21.08.2007 Mansura Guseinova’s bone marrow started engrafting.
Her leukocytes are at 0.6. She is still in a serious condition.
19.08.2007 Masha Ulianova needs nutritional supplement Nutrizon
Energy, because she is weakened by chemotherapy. She also has to take De-Noll medication due to her ulcer. Please help Masha
with paying for the medications.
19.08.2007 On August 20th, Yulia Evko will go to Moscow for related
liver transplantation. She was invited by Professor Gautier.
19.08.2007 We urgently need to help Svetlana Nosova, to find a rental apartment
for her relative who will be taking care of her during transplantation. AdVita fund is ready to pay for apartment rent. If someone is interested
in renting an apartment to Svetlana, please call us at 8-901-30-88-728.
19.08.2007 Gulrukh Mahmudhon is in a serious condition. Her family still needs help.
19.08.2007 Polina Chesnokova was hospitalized for transplantation at BMT clinic.
The transplantation is scheduled for August 28th.
19.08.2007 Lera Kerber was made a special device, which allowed her to get
up and walk for the first time in many months. Her treatment is proceeding according to the protocol.
19.08.2007 Renata Maksudova urgently needs to find syringe-pen Roferon-Pen
for injections. So far we were unable to locate it in the pharmacies of St. Petersburg.
19.08.2007 Oksana Zhuravleva completed her treatment and was discharged
from the hospital.
19.08.2007 Serezha Bolshakov is still receiving planned chemotherapy. He is very
emaciated. Serezha needs to take nutritional supplement Nutrizon (powder). One can lasts him two days.
19.08.2007 Ksyusha Borisik completed Ampholip therapy. Her internal stitches were
removed and she was discharged from the hospital on August 17th. She will most likely need Diflucan to complete treatment of the fungal
infection of her intestines.
19.08.2007 Levon Karagezian needs LMW (low molecular weight) Heparin and
unfractioned Heparin (coatest), or anti-factor Xa + or livil anti Xa, with control plasma to continue treatment of his thrombosis. Please
help us locate this medication.
19.08.2007 Alina Kolovanova is still in complete remission based on results of control MRI scan.
19.08.2007 Konstantin Knyazhischev is undergoing planned testing before hospitalization.
He still needs to raise money for delivery of transplant by August 25th. Currently, he only has 18,000 rubles in his bank account, while he needs
2,500 euros. We only have a week to raise the money.
19.08.2007 Masha Rybakova is getting very few donations. She is running out
of Ampholip and Cancidas. However, Masha still needs to continue antifungal therapy as prescribed. Masha really needs help to continue
struggle for her life.
19.08.2007 Dasha Prokopenko started second chemotherapy block, which is very
harsh (high-dosage Methotrexate). She will need help from blood donors with blood type III(-). Please call our blood donation line
at 8-901-3-0000-25 if you would like to help.
19.08.2007 We expect to receive the hospital bill for Dasha Savelieva’s operation by
August 21st or 22nd. We will publish it as soon as we receive it.
14.08.2007 Please note that we will be unable to update our site with information regarding
incoming donations and our expenditures for the next ten days. We will make sure to post this information after August 26th.
14.08.2007 Alesha Levantuev needs help with buying Roaccutane and
paying for apartment rent.
14.08.2007 Nastia Matushkina completed planned examination. She feels relatively
well. However, she still needs Vfend and Valcyte.
14.08.2007 Yulia Urusheva completed planned examination. She feels well.
14.08.2007The blood supply to Levon Karagezian's lungs is gradually improving.
14.08.2007 Mansura Guseinova
is in post-transplantation period and she needs help from blood donors with blood type I(-).
14.08.2007 Sasha Berbek still does not have a place to live.
14.08.2007 Slava Chsityakov had a post-transplantation testing. He is doing well.
14.08.2007 Renata Maksudova was hospitalized at Botkin hospital for liver biopsy.
She still needs help with paying for Vfend and apartment rent. It is also likely that she will be prescribed new medications based on
the biopsy results.
14.08.2007 The money Lera Kerber and
Anya Kostygova received from Russian Help Fund for their treatment has been almost used up.
14.08.2007 Masha Rybakova
still needs to take Ampholip in combination with Cancidas
14.08.2007 Zhenya Lentyaeva is in a critical condition. She is in coma,
on artificial lung ventilation and with a swelling of her brain. Her bone marrow is filled with blast cells. The search for the donor has
been halted.
14.08.2007 An anonymous donor paid for the donor search for Oleg Simkin.
14.08.2007 Gulrukh Mahmudhon has high temperature and sepsis. Her family
still needs financial help.
14.08.2007 Galina Alieva
is recovering from autotransplantation. She feels relatively well.
14.08.2007Masha Ulianova still needs help with raising money for her testing
14.08.2007 Igor Devyatov was hospitalized at the hospice in Kemerovo.
14.08.2007 The family of Angelina Radko really needs financial help.
10.08.2007 Stas Evdokimov tested positive
for hepatitis B, and possibly hepatitis C. He needs 4 packages of Zeffix for the total
cost of 10,800 rubles.
10.08.2007 AdVita Foundation initiated fund-raising for
the treatment of Lena Gavrilyuk and Kolya German.
07.08.2007 Zhenya Lentyaeva had a relapse. She needs help with buying medications
to fight complications from infections.
06.08.2007 A fund in Germany guaranteed payment of
radiation therapy for Sasha Spivak. Sasha will
also get 6-month supply of Temodal for free.
05.08.2007 Renata Maksudova's
hepatitis is still active. She will soon need 2 packages of Rebetol (200 mg dosage).
The cost of a package is 5,700 rubles. Renata has enough Vfend until August 14th,
but she needs to continue the therapy. She is planned for a liver biopsy in the next
few days.
03.08.2007 Denis Trufanov needs expensive medications and medical supplies for the transplantation.
They include Cancidas, Vfend, Valcyte and systems for thrombocyte apheresis to prepare concentrate.
02.08.2007 Mansura Guseinova had started pre-transplantation chemotherapy.
02.08.2007 Igor Andrianov feels relatively well. He now needs to take Diflucan in place
of Vfend (150 mg a day for 2 months). The cost of 150-mg capsule of this drug is 300 rubles.
31.07.2007 After the chemotherapy, Levon Karagezyan's blood test results worsened. Therefore,
Antithrombin dosage was changed. Levon now needs 3 bottles of 1,000 ME a week. A bottle of the drug costs 16,150 rubles. Altogether, Levon
needs 20 more bottles.
30.07.2007 Mansura Guseinova was hospitalized at BMT clinic for bone marrow transplantation.
Since quote for Mansura's transplantation has not yet been approved, and the transplantation cannot be delayed, AdVita fund paid total of 80,000 rubles
for the necessary medications.
30.07.2007 Galina Alieva is in a post-transplantation period and she needs help from blood donors
with blood type II(+). Please call our blood donation line at +7 (901) 3-0000-25.
30.07.2007 Kolya Haritonov completed the planned examination and the remission was confirmed.
30.07.2007 Masha Rybakova was transferred to BMT clinic. Based on the results of CT scan of her lungs,
she is improving, although her doctors believe she needs to continue Ampholip and Cancidas therapy. At the same time, Masha needs to take many other
drugs and nutritional supplement Nutrizon-Energy.
30.07.2007 Polina Chesnokova is no longer in cytopenia. She was discharged home.
30.07.2007 Sergey Shorokh was taken off supporting therapy. He feels well.
30.07.2007 Levon Karagezyan had an improvement with blood supply in his lungs. He started
planned chemotherapy.
30.07.2007 Alina Pozdeeva completed full course of treatment. She is in complete remission
and feels well.
30.07.2007 Kirill Vazhenin's remission is sustained. His GVHD symptoms had increased, and
Kirill started hormone therapy. He feels well.
30.07.2007 Dmitry Naumov's diagnosis was clarified. He was diagnosed with acute
lymphoblastic leukemia. During August, we need to raise the money for delivery of transplant and apartment rental for Dima and his parents in
St. Petersburg for the period of treatment.
30.07.2007 Igor Andrianov's condition stabilized and he had become an
outpatient. The donated bone marrow is engrafting and the GVHD symptoms have been suppressed. Igor still needs help with buying Vfend.
30.07.2007 Sasha Berbek urgently needs help with paying for apartment rent.
30.07.2007 Anya Kostygova was able to overcome her infections and recover.
30.07.2007 Based on the test results, Kirill Alexandrov is doing well. The boy was
discharged from the hospital and he feels well.
30.07.2007 Yulia Kokareva completed the first of the two planned chemotherapy courses
with Hycamtin. Her family needs help with paying for the treatment. The Regional Health Committee had never contributed to Yulia's treatment,
so her parents have been paying the hospital bills themselves.
30.07.2007 Zhenya Peshev completed treatment and was discharged from the clinic.
30.07.2007 Katya Baranova is completing the third chemotherapy course. Based on the results
of the examination performed after the second block, she is in complete remission.
30.07.2007 Yulia Evko completed her chemotherapy protocol, and she had an operation to
remove a lesion in her lungs. She will now recover and undergo examination at a later date. Based on the test results, a decision will be made whether
she needs related liver transplantation.
30.07.2007 Masha Ulianova had the third block of high-dosage chemotherapy. Masha needs to take
De-Nol constantly to block the pain and recover damaged mucous tissues. The cost of the medication is 400 rubles a week. Masha also needs help with
paying for CT scan and PET scan.
24.07.2007 AdVita Foundation initiated fund-raising for
the treatment of Sergey Zharkov.
23.07.2007 Igor Andrianov is being transferred to BMT clinic. He has a strong cough and
he is suspected of having a fungal infection and GVHD of mucous tissues.
23.07.2007 Levon Karagezyan urgently needs 3 bottles of Antithrombin (1 gram),
which cost 17,000 rubles a bottle.
23.07.2007 Natasha Temnikova feels well, but she still needs to take Vfend (200 mg) daily
for at least a month. The cost of a package that lasts two week is 29,000 rubles.
23.07.2007 Mansura Guseinova is being hospitalized at the Children's hospital No.1 for
pre-transplantation testing. We are enormously grateful to Mansura's supporters for raising the money for delivery of transplant!
23.07.2007 Lera Kerber needs 30 capsules of Temodal (100 mg) to continue her
treatment. The medication is needed by the beginning of August.
23.07.2007 Masha Rybakova will be transferred to Bone Marrow Transplantation clinic.
She still needs Cancidas and Ampholip.
23.07.2007 Gulrukh Mahmudhon is starting radiation therapy. Her family really needs help
with paying for Gulrukh's treatment, apartment rent and living expenses.
23.07.2007 Nikita Maslov is going to run out of Diflucan by August 12th. He is now taking
300 mg of drug daily, which costs 600 rubles a day. Nikita needs Diflucan for at least another month.
23.07.2007 Vanya Chernolutsky feels well, but the transplantologists believe
that he needs to be monitored by the specialists for some time. Vanya's mom is asking for help with apartment rent.
She needs to pay 20,000 rubles by August 1st.
23.07.2007 Galina Alieva’s bone marrow transplantation is scheduled for July 24th. A week after
the transplantation, she will need help from a large number of blood donors. Everyone who would like to help Galina and donate blood is
asked to call our blood donation line at +7 (901) 3000025.
23.07.2007 Masha Ulianova completed two blocks of high-dosage chemotherapy. At the beginning
of August, she will need dual-spiral CT scan and PET scan for the total of 25,000 rubles.
18.07.2007 The bone marrow transplantation for Polina Chesnokova was set for August 28th,
the transplantation for Konstantin Knyazhischev is scheduled for September 11th and Dmitry Naumov
is set for September 18th.
17.07.2007 Polina Chesnokova urgently
needs help from blood donors. The blood transfusion department of hospital No.31
will accept donations of ANY blood type on exchange basis. Everyone who is ready
to help Polina is asked to call AdVita blood donation line at +7 (901) 3000025.
17.07.2007 Sasha Spivak is running out
of money for his treatment in Germany. Sasha urgently needs help.
16.07.2007 Slava Chistyakov had completely recovered after the transplantation and he
was discharged home.
15.07.2007 Natasha Temnikova's condition improved and she was discharged home to be
monitored as an outpatient. She still needs Vfend.
13.07.2007 Alesha Blotsky's chemotherapy was interrupted due to significant drop in leukocyte
counts. On July 30th he will start high-dosage chemotherapy.
13.07.2007 Masha Rybakova's condition is gradually stabilizing. The hemorrhagic symptoms have disappeared,
her blood counts went back to normal and she no longer needs transfusions. In addition, her GVHD symptoms improved. Masha is now conscious, and for the
first time in a while she can eat by herself, although she is still on artificial lung ventilation.
Based on the results of CT scan, Ampholip therapy brought significant improvement. Therefore, she needs to get 30 more bottles of this drug for 15 more
days of therapy. Each bottle costs 6,500 rubles. Masha is also continuing Cancidas therapy.
09.07.2007 Kolya Kharitonov's
therapy is completed, and he went home. We are enormously grateful to all
his supporters!
09.07.2007 Unfortunately,
Gulrukh Mahmudhon's tumor is not responding to chemotherapy.
She is being considered for radiation therapy.
09.07.2007 Anya Kostygina is feeling
better. She now needs Nutrizon-Energy nutritional supplement, because she is feeling
very weak.
09.07.2007 Elena Romanova will be
admitted for autotransplantation to the II ward of hospital No.31.
09.07.2007 Ksyusha Borisik completely
recovered after the autotransplantation and she was discharged home.
09.07.2007 Alexander Pushkin
feels relatively well. He regained his weight and overcame the complications
caused by infections. His blood counts are still low.
09.07.2007 Based on the MRI results,
Kirill Alexandrov is doing well and has no areas that
accumulate contrast. On July 11th Kirill will have PET scan that costs
7,000 rubles.
09.07.2007 On June 28th we told you that our patients
are in a very difficult situation with obtaining life-saving Vfend and Cancidas
medications. The following events took place since then:
- The Russian Help Fund donated 174,000 rubles for Vfend and Valcyte for
Nastia Matushkina. This should last Nastia for two
months (starting on July 11th).
- We are sincerely grateful to Anna for donating 2 packages of Vfend for
Renata Maksudova. It should last Renata until
July 21st.
- We purchased Vfend for Natalia Temnikova and
Igor Andrianov for two weeks (until July 22nd) using
donations received for all patients.
- Vika Bystrova is currently being considered for continuation
of Vfend therapy.
- We are sincerely grateful to AiF - St. Petersburg newspaper and Children in Peril
program of RIA-news for their publications about Masha Rybakova,
who was in the most critical situation. She is starting to receive donations.
06.07.2007 Renata Maksudova needs
to take 2 capsules of Vfend a day (200 mg each) for the next few months.
A package of Vfend that lasts a week costs 29,000 rubles.
03.07.2007 Anya Kostygova needs Zyvox
to fight the infection (2 packages a day for 10-14 days). The cost of a package
is 2,300-2,500 rubles. Therefore, a course of treatment will require at least
50,000 rubles. The help is needed urgently!
03.07.2007 AdVita Foundation initiated fund-raising for
the treatment of Igor Devyatov.
03.07.2007 AdVita Foundation initiated fund-raising for
the treatment of Alesha Blotsky.
02.07.2007 AdVita Foundation initiated fund-raising for
the treatment of Masha Uliyanova.
02.07.2007 Masha Rybakova needs Ampholip in addition to Cancidas therapy. Overall,
she needs to spend 28,000 rubles DAILY on her medications, for at least three weeks. Please help Masha!
28.06.2007 Dear friends!
It so happened that several of our patients need extremely expensive medications at the same time. Masha Rybakova needs Cancidas at a cost of 16,000 rubles a day. Denis Sysoev, Renata Maksudova,
Natalia Temnikova, Igor Andrianov,
Nastia Matushkina and Veronika Bystrova need Vfend.
It means that we need to raise 150,000 rubles a week just for Vfend! If our patients cannot take Vfend and Cancidas, all the efforts of their doctors will be wasted.
The hospitals do not have these drugs in stock, and they are not available under free medication program. These costs come on top of daily treatment and testing
expenses of 67 patients who are still on treatment, as well as periodic help to 60 patients who were discharged. In summer, the donations drop dramatically.
We get very little response to the letters from our patients published in newspapers and various online forums. Many people are vacationing.
However, the children and adults are still getting sick. Moreover, with the closure of BMT clinic at State Medical University, the financial pressures on our fund had
seriously grown. We now pay for hospitalization of out-of-town patients in the municipal clinics, apartment rent for those who were discharged as outpatients and
medications that are lacking in hospitals not specializing in oncology.
It is a very difficult time for us! We cannot allow our children and adult patients to suffer as a result of our inability to help them with
medications.
We will be very grateful for any help and any ideas which would help us find life-saving medications or money.
28.06.2007 Andrei Smironov was found to have changes, which may be explained by a relapse or
infectious encephalitis. While BMT clinic is closed, all of Andrei's treatment is paid for by AdVita fund.
28.06.2007 Renata Maksudova's hepatitis C reactivated, and she needs therapy with Roferon and Heptral.
She may also need hospitalization at Botkin hospital. Since she is an out-of-town patient, she would have to pay for her treatment in full.
28.06.2007 Masha Kokshina was discharged home, but she still needs many medications and
test strips for testing her blood sugar. In addition, she will soon need Valcyte. The cost of a package with 60 pills, which will last a
month, is 70,000 rubles.
28.06.2007 Igor Andrianov shows no donated blood cells by 47th day post-transplantation. In addition, he
is allergic to Orungal and he needs to take Vfend (200 mg) twice a day. The cost of a package (14 capsules) is 30,500 rubles.
Igor really needs help.
28.06.2007 We need to raise 2,500 euros for delivery of transplant for Mansura Guseinova by July 25th.
28.06.2007 Nastia Matushkina still needs long-term therapy with Vfend and Valcyte.
28.06.2007 AdVita fund is no longer accepting donations through CyberPlat system.
CyberPlat made a decision to stop offering their services to us and explained it the following way: "A decision was made to cancel our agreement due
to the current circumstances. You refuse to sign an amendment to the agreement and share financial responsibility with us... due to specifics of your
activities, our management made this decision as we are now changing our policy and we will be developing different markets...
We are now considering reevaluating all our agreements with charitable organizations (in terms of canceling our contracts)"
(Yulia Serdyukova, manager of commercial department at CyberPlat)
26.06.2007 Kirill Alexeev needs to have PET scan after the MRI.
The preliminary cost of the test is 15,000 rubles.
26.06.2007 AdVita Foundation initiated fund-raising for
the treatment of Denis Sysoev.
25.06.2007 The specialists of Vreden Orthopedic Research Institute made a decision that
Dariko Salia needs to have an operation to install hip joint replacements.
25.06.2007 Ksyusha Borisik developed a post-transplantation complication, toxic hepatitis. She needs Heptral..
25.06.2007 Anya Kramarenko urgently needs 5,000 rubles for the next course of Roaccutane.
09.06.2007 Slava Chistyakov needs help with paying apartment rent.
09.06.2007 Serezha Bolshakov needs Nutrizone Energy nutritional supplement.
09.06.2007 Horen Melidonian's thrombocyte and protein counts fell. He still suffers from severe
intestinal pains and swellings. His family is in real need of help.
09.06.2007 Kirill Vazhenin needs five tubes of Roferon that cost 1,200 rubles apiece.
09.06.2007 Nastia Matushkina still needs help with buying Valcyte and Vfend.
09.06.2007 Alesha Levantuev needs Roaccutane (12,00 rubles a month) and help with paying apartment rent.
09.06.2007 Andrei Smirnov needs help with paying apartment rent.
09.06.2007 Yulia Kokareva needs to
undergo two courses of Hycamtin that cost 75,000 rubles each. The first course will
start in two weeks.
09.06.2007 Renata Maksudova still
needs help with paying for medications, tests and apartment rent.
09.06.2007 Masha Rybakova still
needs help with paying for medications and apartment rent.
09.06.2007 Sasha Bergoltsev needs help
with paying for expensive drugs.
08.06.2007 Based on the results of the examinations, Sonia Shapovalova was diagnosed with
rinofaringitis, ear infection, hyperplasia of tonsils, neural system anemia of the right side and fungal infection.
07.06.2007 Sonia Shapovalova needs help with buying medications and paying for MRI (10,000 rubles).
06.06.2007 Andrei Smirnov is in the post-autotransplantation period and he needs numerous medications.
28.05.2007 Due to temporary closure of bone marrow transplantation clinic of
St. Petersburg's State Medical University, Igor Andrianov will be transferred to
the city hospital No.31. He currently needs Orungal, Amoxiclav, Sandimmune neoral and Zovirax for the total
of 30,000 rubles.
28.05.2007 Due to temporary closure of bone marrow transplantation clinic of
St. Petersburg's State Medical University, Andrei Smirnov will be transferred to
the Children's hospital No.1 where he will have to pay for the therapy in full.
28.05.2007 Gulrukh Mahmudhon will be transferred to the city hospital No.31.
She needs to pay extra 20,000 rubles for her treatment at the Regional hospital.
22.05.2007 Konstantin Kniazhischev’s transplantation was scheduled
for September 11, 2007. The amount needed to pay for the bone marrow donor registry services has not yet
been raised.
17.05.2007 The BMT clinic of State Medical University
urgently needs blood donations from donors with blood type I(-). The blood is
critically needed by Dima Bugranov and
Sasha Vassiliev. It may also be needed for
Sasha Bergoltsev, Andrei Smirnov
and Lena Gavrilyuk. There are no blood supplies anywhere in the city. We managed
to purchase a package of r-mass from the city hospital No.31.
Meanwhile, Dima Bugranov needs EIGHT packages just for the weekends.
We also need blood donations from donors with blood type I(+). Due to urgency of the
situation, blood donation center of State Medical University will be open tomorrow,
on May 18th. If you would like to donate your blood, please call AdVita fund's
blood donation line at +7(901)3000025.
15.05.2007 AdVita Foundation initiated fund-raising for
the treatment of Gulrukh Mahmudhon.
14.05.2007 AdVita Foundation initiated fund-raising for
the treatment of Vanya Chernolutsky.
14.05.2007 Volodya Lukianov was taken to intensive care unit of hospital No.5. He is in coma
and on artificial lung ventilation.
14.05.2007 Dima Bugranov's condition worsened drastically. Dima needs help from blood donors with blood type I(-).
07.05.2007 Iliya Alexeev needs ten packages of Zyvox.
The cost of each package is 2,500 rubles. The help is needed urgently!
07.05.2007 Natasha Nurm's
condition had worsened. She has numerous swellings due to heart failure.
07.05.2007 Seymour Aliev was diagnosed with a
relapse. On May 6th he returned to St. Petersburg for examinations and hospitalization. He is in a
serious condition. The full cost of tests and treatment for Seymour have to be paid for by his parents.
The family is out of money and really needs help.
04.05.2007 AdVita Foundation initiated fund-raising for
the treatment of Denis Trufanov and Lena Murzina.
03.05.2007 Due to worsening of GVHD, Masha Kokshina
will be hospitalized at the Children's hospital No.1. Masha will need Insulin and tests for determining sugar levels in her blood.
03.05.2007 Alesha Levantuev needs to find new apartment
for rent near Prospekt Veteranov subway station by May 31.
03.05.2007 Dima Bugranov needs help with buying Salofalk and
Ribavirin, and paying for apartment rent.
03.05.2007 Renata Maksudova needs Vfend for intravenous
injections, which would cost 98,000 rubles.
03.05.2007 Masha Rybakova needs urgent help with buying
medications and paying apartment rent.
02.05.2007 Sasha Berbek needs 300 mg
of Sandimmune Neoral a day (2x150 mg). He urgently needs help with purchasing this medication
in 100 mg and 50 mg dosage for the total of 16,900 rubles.
02.05.2007 Slava Chistyakov needs help
with paying apartment rent!
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