Better chances for childhood cancer in Brazil

Meet Guilherme: he is 8 years old and came with his grandmother, Edilene, sent from Pará, so that he could receive excellent treatment here, at GRAACC hospital.

   In our toy library, he discovered with other little patients a new game that he loves to practice: Dedobol (“finger football”, board game). It is an internal activity that promotes a lot of excitement and interaction among our patients, so that, while undergoing treatment, they can continue to experience all the joy of childhood.

   He found in our Hospital the best health professionals, equipment, infrastructure and care. The new temporary home for Guilherme and Edilene showed how GRAACC is much more than just a hospital.

Offering every chance of healing with quality of life is a great achievement. Celebrating so many achievements is only possible with your support and the solidarity of thousands of people who trust our work. Therefore, we believe that such achievements belong to all our donors as well. Make your donation and contribute for Guilherme’s treatment and many other future little patients like him.

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1,000 bone marrow transplants performed!

This is a very important milestone, as it is a treatment indicated to offer more chances of cure to patients diagnosed with some of the most frequent tumors in childhood, such as leukemia and lymphomas, as well as others that demand extremely high complexity, such as high-risk neuroblastomas, retinoblastoma and central nervous system tumors.

It was with your support that we achieved this milestone and can now give more chances of survival to children with cancer in Brazil, performing one in every six pediatric bone marrow transplants in the country.

Great achievements come with great stories. When we talk about a thousand transplants performed, we are talking about hundreds of lives saved. Procedure number 1,000 was intended to provide more safety in the treatment of our patient Murilo, who is only 3 years old. With a rare brain tumor called pinealoblastoma, this little resident of Bauru, in the interior of the State of São Paulo, has been treated for a year at, which his mother would not change for any other.

“My son was welcomed by an indescribable team. Here, each patient is cared for in a different and unique way. It is a welcoming that comforts us and gives us the certainty that our children are in the best place to be treated”, says Daiane, 34 years old, Murilo's mother.

After receiving efficient treatment to eliminate the tumor, he still needed high doses of chemotherapy to reduce the chance of a possible return of the cancer. His own cells were collected and frozen, allowing high-dose chemotherapy to be carried out, followed by an autologous transplant, which soon restored Murilo's health.

Offering every chance of healing with quality of life is an achievement. Celebrating so many accomplishments is only possible with your support and the solidarity of thousands of people who trust our work. Therefore, we believe that such achievements belong to all our donors as well. Make your donation and contribute for the treatment of our patients.