Nadya Popova | News
31.05.2006 Today, at 6 p.m., Nadya Popova died of the consequences
of a major stroke. She spent over two weeks at the resuscitation
ward in the state of coma. Please pray for Nadya's soul and for
her father Alexander. He has recently also lost his wife: she died
when Alexander was in the Moscow hospital with their daughter. The
girl's condition was so grave that he could not leave her and attend
her mother's funeral. And now Nadya is also dead. She has not even
learned of her mother's death... |
|  My daughter Nadya is ten years old, and she is gravely ill. She has Burkitt's lymphoma with lesion of abdominal organs. The progress of the disease began in the autumn of 2005. At first my girl received treatment at our local (city of Yaroslavl) pediatric hospital. The problems with the abdominal cavity were cured. But, shortly after she was discharged from that hospital, she started to complain of severe headaches. It turned out to be a life-threatening cerebral tumor. In February 2006, Nadya was sent for treatment to the Russian Children's Clinical Hospital in Moscow and admitted to the Department of Oncohematology-16. After she was brought to the hospital in Moscow, she spent almost a week at the intensive care ward, unconscious, under artificial respiration. Then she received a course of chemotherapy, and at last there was some improvement. The doctors prescribed several more courses of chemotherapy, during which she should take Cancidas, a very expensive antifungal drug. Also, chemotherapeutic medications should be administered through a special Ommayo reservoir, for which we will have to pay ourselves.
We live in the town of Rybinsk, Yaroslavl region. My wife is also ill: she has a cardiac anomaly and cannot get a regular job; she only receives a small disability pension. I am a driver, and my salary is also far from big. Yet we must raise a large sum of money for our daughter's treatment, because the medications are very expensive. We have no rich relatives to help us. Our only hope is that other people, who care for gravely ill children, will support us. We thank everybody who is going to help our daughter recover from this disease.
Alexander Popov
April 17, 2006 The doctor's comment
Nadezhda (Nadya) Popova, a child of 10, has been a patient of the Department of Oncohematology-16 since March 4, 2006. Her diagnosis is B-cell lymphoma (Burkitt's lymphoma) with a cerebral lesion.
The patient was admitted to the hospital in critical condition, with cerebral oedema and displacement of median structures due to a large mass lesion in the left temporal region of the brain. Received artificial respiration at the Department of Resuscitation and Intensive Care, RCCH, for six days. Urgent chemotherapy and intense accompanying therapy made it possible to reduce the size of the tumor and to eliminate symptoms of cerebral oedema. The girl was transferred to the Department of Oncohematology-16 on March 10, 2006. Subsequently she received another cycle of intense high-dose chemotherapy, after which the child's condition improved and the size of the cerebral lesion was reduced by 40%. The positive dynamics makes us moderately optimistic, although it is still impossible to make any definite prognosis.
Now the child must continue chemotherapeutic treatment for a long time. An Ommayo reservoir is to be installed for intraventricular administration of drugs. Unfortunately, such intraventricular catheters are currently lacking at the RCCH, and so it must be bought for 8222 roubles (approx. $300). Also, the child experiences marked nephrotoxicity of Amphotericin treatment during myelotoxic aplasia, and thus the required regimen of high-dose chemotherapy is hindered. Therefore, it is highly desirable that Cancidas be used for the antifungal treatment. The total amount needed for the therapy is about $6500 (10 vials). Head of Department of Oncohematology-16,
Dr. Dmitri V. Litvinov
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