Hello, my name is..." - each of us is involuntarily afraid to hear this seemingly ordinary phrase when we come to the oncohematology department for children. As much as we wouldn't like it, the department is never empty, and vacant beds more and more often "find" new owners in the form of young patients. Unfortunately, every…
Children who end up in oncology departments are forced to grow up early. The healthy and smiling child of yesterday turns into a serious little man. Children are forced to accept the inevitability of regular painful procedures and manipulations and accept the restrictions imposed by the diagnosis.
Vova is under treatment at the surgery department of Russian Children's Clinical Hospital in Donetsk, he has nasopharyngeal carcinoma (nasopharyngeal cancer), which is a malignant tumor. Its location doesn't allow to make an operation. As it is known, the most effective method of treatment is chemotherapy.
But alas, not always chemotherapy medications are easily available and affordable, especially in our native Donetsk, considering the ongoing military operations. In such situations we do everything possible to find and pay for the necessary medicines.
Created: 05.06.2021
Updated: 05.06.2021
