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Matvei Korzh

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18.03.2010 Matvei Korzh is recovering after the third transplantation of hematopoietic stem cells in his five-year-old life. He is currently being discharged from hospital for out-patient treatment. The physicians and parents do their best to achieve stable remission. By the way, Matvei's brother was recently born!

26.11.2009 Cord blood for the transplantation to be made to Matvei Korzh has been found and paid for. Matvei will undergo his unrelated BMT next Friday. Let us wish him good luck!

21.07.2009
When Matvei arrived for a routine check-up in the beginning of July, his parents heard the sad news: the disease has returned again. For the third time.
However, the physicians think that there is still hope for Matvei to get over the disease. They are ready to fight, just like Matvei himself and his family. At first they are to get over this relapse and to attain remission, and then Matvei will have another transplantation.
And our problem is just as simple and definite as ever: to raise 15,000 euro in order to perform the search for an unrelated donor of hematopoietic stem cells and graft harvesting. We will cope with this, right?

11.12.2007 Matvei Korzh has come for a check-up. He is serious, active, with excellent appetite. We hope that the doctors will be satisfied with his condition as well.

4.04.2007 D.V. Litvinov, Department of Oncohematology and Polychemotherapy-16:
"Matvei Korzh is all right. The boy has been in remission for almost a year. No transcript, donor chimerism, good peripheral blood. The child is happy and jumps like a monkey. We decided to stop Proleukin treatment, but we will closely monitor the boy's condition."

16.01.2007 Matvei Korzh is continuing his Proleukin therapy, now in somewhat lower doses. His condition is more or less all right.

24.12.2006 Stas and Natalia, the parents of Matvei Korzh, thank the readers of this site:
"We are grateful to everybody who helps our Matvei. After treatment with Proleukin, which was bought thanks to your donations, our son is feeling much better. We thank the founders of the charity foundation. Their work enables the children to receive expensive drugs, which give them hope and save their lives."

11.10.2006 Matvei Korzh responds to treatment quite well. Therefore, Proleukin therapy should not be interrupted, and we go on with the fundraising. We thank everybody who helps little Matvei!

They have helped:

Matvei Korzh, born 2004, has been a patient of the Department of Hematology No. 2 since July 5, 2009. Diagnosis: acute myeloid leukemia M5, 3rd combined relapse. The child was in clinical and hematological remission up to July 2009, when a relapse was detected. In view of the type of leukemia, late relapse, and satisfactory general condition of the child, this patient should undergo bone marrow transplantation from an alternative donor in case remission is attained.

Head of Department D.V. Litvinov

In 2006:

My son Matvei is two years old. When he was just three months old, we noticed strange bruises on his body. In the local medical center, the doctors mistook his condition for acute lymphocytic leukemia. Then they prescribed wrong treatment and afterwards proposed supportive therapy with analgesics, saying that he would live up to 1 year at the most. We took him out of this hospital and brought him to the RCCH in Moscow. He was barely alive at the time. At the RCCH, he was immediately taken to the intensive care ward. At this hospital, we also learned the actual diagnosis: myeloid leukemia type M5, translocation 6:11. After chemotherapy, Matvei had marrow transplantation from an unrelated donor, but cancer cells were detected in his blood only five months later. After another course of chemotherapy, Matvei had his second transplantation. Everything seemed to be all right, but then the translocation, the first sign of possible relapse, appeared again five months later. Our physician-in-charge Larisa Shelikhova prescribed Proleukin. It helps a lot: the translocation his disappeared, and Matvei is feeling better at last. But this drug is very expensive, 13,000 roubles (almost $500) per vial, which is sufficient for two weeks. Matvei has already received three doses, but we need at least five vials more. Please help little Matvei survive if you only can!

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