Help Children with Cancer Access Treatment!

Fourteen-year-old Kamila is from Kyrgyzstan, but right now she and her family are in Turkey where she has been fighting for her life since June.  It all started when the local doctors in Kyrgyzstan.detected a lump in her breast during an ultrasound. Initial results indicated it was a harmless hematoma. Unfortunately, a biopsy performed after the resection showed that it was a malignant tumor.  

The family was in shock, and to confirm the diagnosis, they decided to send tissue samples to a clinic in Turkey specializing in cancer treatment. Unfortunately, the diagnosis was confirmed and further clarified as alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma.  It is a rare and aggressive type of soft tissue cancer that primarily affects children and young adults. The cancer was already at stage IV and had metastasized through Kamila's body involving her bones, bone marrow, spine, chest and liver. 

Kamila urgently started chemotherapy. The treatment is already showing results – the tumors are shrinking, and doctors are planning the next stages of treatment, including radiotherapy and subsequent surgery. Still, the treatment has been incredibly difficult. The constant pain in Kamila's bones and spine saps her strength.  On top of that, the cost of treatment is overwhelming.  It is completely beyond Kamila's parents' reach. And yet, continuing treatment is the only chance to save Kamila's life. 

If you would like to support Kamila in her fight for her life, please continue to donate to our project.  We focus on patients from low-income countries, like Kamila's native Kyrgyzstan, where cancer treatment hospitals are not well equipped to handle rare and aggressive cancers that often require individualized treatment plans.  Traveling abroad is often the best chance for the families to access modern treatment for their children.

Thank you for your care and support!  We are very grateful for the donations that allow us to issue financial aid to patients like Kamila!