Eugene Chernyshov | News
29.06.2006
Yesterday we received the tragic news from the Hadassa hospital
in Jerusalem: Eugene Chernyshov died of generalized viral infection,
which had developed very fast in his condition of immune suppression.
The doctors could not do anything in this situation.
19.04.2006
We received news about Eugene
Chernyshov from Israel. The examinations are over, and the boy
will be transferred to his ward at the Marrow Transplantation Department
on Monday, April 24. The transplantation itself is planned for May
10. Please pray for the boy.
4.04.2006
Yesterday, Eugene Chernyshov
left for Israel with his mother. He will receive the necessary treatment
there. Let us wish him good luck!
The Public Health Ministry of the Russian Federation paid two-thirds
of the total cost of the boy's treatment abroad. The remaining sum,
which also included the transportation expenses, was about 55,000
euro. It was raised only through private donations. Thank you very
much, dear friends!
We are especially grateful to the staff of the Vremechko TV program
and personally to TV journalist Maria Drovnenkova for their concern
for Eugene and, in general, for the invaluable help that our patients
always receive from them.
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|  Our only son, who was born in 1999, is fatally ill. Please help us save him!
Eugene fell ill in 2003. It was acute lymphocytic leukemia. We live in a very distant region in Southern Siberia: Tuva, town of Kyzyl. The local doctors sent us for treatment at the RCCH in Moscow, where we were admitted to the Department of Oncohematology-16. Before this disease, our boy was sociable and lively, healthy and merry. He was keen about drawing. He also dreamed of becoming a pilot and flying planes. He was sad to learn that the disease has made these plans impossible. But we provided all kinds of moral support to him. By the end of this treatment, he suddenly said, "Mom, now I know, I won't be a pilot, but I'll become a doctor in order to treat other kids."
Treatment ended, but then Eugene had a relapse only three months after the end of supportive therapy. This time the disease was even more grave. Now it was not only lymphocytic leukemia but also neuroleukemia, and the central nervous system, including the brain, was affected. It was decided to start high-dose chemotherapy as soon possible. For more efficient treatment, an Ommaya reservoir was installed (it is a catheter into the brain ventricle). The boy went through this operation with great courage; after all, he knows how painful marrow punctures are. After the end of chemotherapy, my son is to have an urgent marrow transplantation operation with total irradiation of the whole body. But such operations are performed only abroad. Sending my son to another country is the only way to save him. But we will never manage to raise the enormous sum of money required for this. Our boy looks at me in bewilderment: will he have to go through all this pain yet again and in vain? And he hopes that we will help him. Of course, he understands everything.
My only hope is your kindness. Please help us if you can. My child's life depends on your compassion. Please save the little boy. His life is just beginning. With hope and gratitude, mother of Eugene Chernyshov
14.01.2006 The doctor's comment
Eugene Chernyshov, born 1999, is a patient of the Department of Oncohematology and Chemotherapy. His diagnosis is acute lymphocytic leukemia, early first relapse.
Specialists of the Russian Children's Clinical Hospital and Research Institute of Pediatric Hematology held a joint consultation with participation of Academician A. Rumyantsev (Director of the Institute of Pediatric Hematology), Prof. A. Maschan (Deputy Director of the Institute), Prof. E. Samochatova (Deputy Director of the Institute), Prof. N. Myakova (Head of Oncohematology Department, the Institute of Pediatric Hematology), Dr. A. Bologova, Dr. I. Bryusova, and Dr. D. Litvinov (Head of the Department of Oncohematology and Chemotherapy, RCCH).
Final decisiont: according to the protocol, patient Eugene Chernyshov, born 1999, suffering from the first early combined relapse and acute lymphocytic leukemia, has reached the second remission and should now have allogenic marrow transplantation from an unrelated donor as soon as possible (the optimum time would be February 2006). Considering the biology of the relapse, it is fundamentally important that the patient should receive total radiation treatment of the whole body during the conditioning. Since this procedure cannot be performed in Russia, such a transplantation can take place only in a specialized transplantation center in a foreign country. Before the time and place of the transplantation are determined, the patient should still receive intense chemotherapy cycles according to protocol ALL-Rez BFM-96 for group S2.
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