The thin, frail Anechka Porokhnya, wearing two masks, goggles and gloves, enters the office of our Foundation together with her parents. The girl has the same sincerity and joy in her eyes... She timidly takes a seat on a chair in her beautiful dress, which seems a little too big: "This is my favorite dress! I put it on for my birthday but I…
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.