Help Cancer Patients Pay for Travel Expenses!

Your donations have been hard at work this year.  So far in 2018, the project's funds supported five patients who needed help with travel and lodging expenses.  For example, in our last report we told you about Konstantin's story.  Thanks to your generous support, his family was able to bring him from Ukraine for a visit to Essen, Germany and get the medical attention he needed. 

In addition, we recently heard from Muazzam, a patient with Hodgkin's lymphoma from Tajikistan. This is a 30-year old woman, the mom of a little girl.  When she was 27, she enrolled into college to study math - something she dreamed about for years.  Unfortunately, soon after she began feeling unwell and started coughing, became short of breath and was constantly tired.  After months of malaise, Muazzam finally received a diagnosis and began treatment.  In her case, lymphoma resisted standard treatment and Muazzam started losing hope.  Fortunately, several new drugs were recently approved for patients with Hodgkin's lymphoma whose disease returned after treatment.  Although they weren't available in Tajikistan, Muazzam could access them in Russia, and in late 2016 she traveled to St. Petersburg for the first time. 

Since mid-2017 we have helped Muazzam afford traveling to Russia several times.  She was able to access new and effective medications and a month ago she shared great news: she achieved remission!   This means she is much closer to defeating lymphoma, getting her life back and pursuing her dreams. 

Thanks again for continuing to support this project!  We will make sure to report back on how your donations change the lives of cancer patients and bring them new hope in their difficult struggles. 

All the best,