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Tanya Zhovtonoga

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14.10.2009 Tanya Zhovtonoga needed help again: the girl and her father have again arrived at the Department of General Hematology for the next course of therapy with autologous T-regulatory cells. This time, the cells will be administered to the girl three times; the total cost of cell growth services is about 90,000 roubles ($3000). However, the girl's story was not placed on the first page of our website this time: Vyacheslav learned about the problem and provided direct financial aid! Now there is enough money to pay for cell growth. We are sincerely grateful to him!

17.07.2009
Tanya has undergone the next course of her therapy. We are interrupting the fundraising for Tanya's benefit, but your and our help in paying for the next courses will yet be needed. Thank you for helping.

5.02.2009
Tanya has arrived at the hospital again for the next course of therapy with autologous T-regulatory cells. The cost of the treatment course (stem harvesting and cultivation) is 60,000 roubles ($1665). Tanya's grandmother is asking for help again. After the earlier courses of therapy, the girl's condition has improved so notably that Tanya could even study at school together with other children rather than at home. But now it is necessary to consolidate this success.

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News-2007

16.07.2007 The sum raised for the treatment of Tanya Zhovtonoga (120,000 roubles, or $4706) is sufficient at present. We remove the girl's story from the first page of our Web site, but we'll inform our friends about the progress in the girl's treatment.

20.06.2007 The news about Tanya Zhovtonoga: at the Center for Cell Monitoring (Blokhin Oncological Center), her stem cells were taken twice, grown, and infused. Two more extractions of stem cells will be performed. The sum spent during the girl's treatment turned to be somewhat higher than previously planned: 46,000 roubles ($1805) has already been paid, but the next manipulations require 47,200 more ($1850). Please help her!

 

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Tanya Zhovtonoga

My name is Alexander Zhovtonoga. I have been in Moscow with my daughter Tanya for six months, because she is receiving treatment at the Russian Children's Clinical Hospital. Tanya is nine years old, and she is in her second school year. She has had thrombocytopenic purpura since 2002. I raise her all by myself, because her mother refused to take care of the ill child. I had to start proceedings in court to get the rights for raising the child. I am a driver, but presently I cannot get a job and earn for our living, because I must stay with my daughter at hospital. And I cannot pay for the treatment, which costs over 60,000 roubles ($2300).

Yours respectfully,
Alexander Zhovtonoga
May 10, 2007

The doctor's comment

Tanya (Tatiana) Zhovtonoga, aged 9 (born January 31, 1998), has been receiving in-patient and out-patient treatment at the Department of General Hematology since 2003. Her diagnosis is chronic idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, refractory process.

During the time we have been monitoring her condition, she has received several courses of immunosuppressive therapy, including Mabtera, Cyclophosphamide, Vincristine, CellCept, and Cyclosporin A. Also, splenectomy has been performed. However, deep thrombocytopenia persists, in spite of the treatment.

Since the girl's disease is refractory with respect to first-line and second-line immunosuppressive therapy, we have decided to perform autologous T-cell therapy on the basis of the clinical approach developed together with the Laboratory of Cell Monitoring, Research Institute of Rheumatology, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences (laboratory headed by Prof. S.Yu. Bykovskaya).

Head of the Department of General Hematology
M.A. Maschan

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