Help Cancer Patients Find Bone Marrow Donors!

The latest beneficiaries of your support are two young women, Oksana and Marina.   Oksana is a student from Samara region.  She was initially diagnosed with lymphoma back in 2011.  The treatment eventually brought her into remission, but unfortunately, it only lasted 9 months.  Since then Oksana went through more chemotherapy and transplantation of her own stem cells, but her disease continued to progress.  Now she needs even more difficult treatment - transplant from an unrelated donor, as there is no matching donor in Oksana's family.  Thanks to the extra funds raised during Bonus day in July, we were able to forward 10,000 euros for Oksana's donor search. 

Marina has a very similar story.  She too had a particularly aggressive lymphoma that did not respond well to treatment and recurred several times.  This year she began therapy with a new drug that helped bring her disease under control, and that allowed her to begin considering transplant from a donor to help sustain the results of treatment.  A donor was found in the US, and we hope Marina will proceed to transplantation soon. 

We are very grateful to everyone who has helped these young ladies and many other patients since this project started.   Please consider supporting us again on Wednesday, October 15th, the last Bonus day of the year.  Once again, we will get 30% match on all donations up to $1000, and we have a chance to win additional bonuses - for the most funds raised, as well as for the most participants.  Donate early - the contest starts at 9 am EDT (17:00 Moscow time). 

Thank you for everything you do!