Polina
Sobolevskaya

3 years old
(born November, 2001)

Embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma of pelvis minor with lesion of the genitals

Polina and her parents Elena and Eduard live in Kakhovka, a town in the Kherson region.

The girl complained of stomach-ache on February 17, 2004. Two days later, the doctors decided it was acute appendicitis, started an operation, and... saw a huge tumor. After the biopsy, Polina had a bleeding. The doctors began to prepare the parents for the worst, being sure that the girl would not survive till morning. But she continued to fight. She was taken to the regional resuscitation ward on February 20. A repeated 4.5-hour-long operation was held on February 24. Polina's uterus, cervix, ovaries and adnexa were removed. The blood vessels of the left buttock were ligated, but the blood circulation of the right leg was preserved.

The final diagnosis became known: rhabdomyosarcoma of the genital organs...
 

POLINA NEEDS THE FOLLOWING MEDICINES:
 
¹ Name Dosage Amount Approx.price Total cost
 1  Iphosphamide/Holoxan    20 vials  approx. 37 USD  approx. 740 USD
 2  Ceftriaxone  500  10  approx. 1.7 USD  approx. 17 USD
 3  Actinomycin    15 vials    
 4  Vincristine  0.5 mg  10  approx. 2.8 USD  approx. 28 USD
 5  Urometoxan  400 mg  20  approx. 0.9 USD  approx. 9 USD
 6  Novoban    10 amp.    approx. 160 USD
 7  Essenciale  caps.      approx. 7.8 USD

N E W S

October 15, 2004. A letter from Olesya Artemova (Kherson): "I visited Polina today. Poor kid. It is her fourth day under a dropper. When I came in, she was frightened that I would do something else to her. Her mother says that the results of the tests are very bad and they had to come to the hospital a week earlier. And also the medicines affected the mucous membrane of the intestines. She has eaten nothing during the last week or so. She cannot sleep well either. She had just fallen asleep when I came to her yesterday."
 

October 5, 2004. Simlutaneously with infusion pumps, the Kherson Oncohematology Department received help for two children that are under treatment here: 1500 hryvnias (approx. 300 USD) for Polina Sobolevskaya from Vadim (Simferopol) and 300 hryvnias (approx. 60 USD) for Nastya Leshchenko from an anonymous contributor.