NO MORE CHILDHOOD CANCER

Sam...

Please "LIKE US" on Facebook to raise awareness to help children with cancer. Thank you! http://on.fb.me/Kr9mt0

via Crowdrise 18 hours ago

Organizer:
Sam

BENEFITING: ADVITA FUND USA
AMOUNT RAISED OFFLINE: $2,330.00

HERE'S THE STORY:

In the modern world, cancer is no longer a death sentence. Up to 80% of patients can recover and lead healthy lives thanks to advanced medications and latest methods of testing and therapy. Yet in places like Russia and the former Soviet Union republics, which are now independent countries, many patients lack access to latest innovations, as they are not available, not covered by state-sponsored insurance or unafordable.

Bone marrow transplants are used to help patients with various kinds of serious illnesses, including leukemia and multiple myeloma. The procedure was first developed in the 1950s, and was first used successfully in 1968. Bone marrow transplants can help patients who have diseases that were once thought to be incurable.

The insufficiency of government financing of medicine and the lack of private health insurance system led to many children’s deaths that could have been prevented. Every year 1,000 children need the bone marrow transplant but only 10% of them undergo the procedure though for all of them it is the only chance to survive. Since these countries do not have its own bone marrow donor registry, patients who need the transplants have to pay over $25,000 for the search for the donor, collection of bone marrow and delivery of transplant to cities like St. Petersburg, Russia or hospitals in Germany.

Due to new and improved treatments, the 5-year survival rate for neuroblastoma is now 70%; brain and other nervous systems - 74%; leukemia- 82%; Wilms tumor (kidney) -92%; Hodgkin lymphoma - 96%; and non-Hodgkin lymphoma - 86%. But despite the great strides in treatment and care, more than 5,000 children in Russian Federation are diagnosed with cancer every year and, unfortunately for many of them, those improved treatments and advanced medications are not available.

Advita Fund USA was founded to help improve access to the most effective treatment to cancer patients. Advita's volunteers want to make sure that patients’ lives depend not on their income or birthplace, but on the progress of modern medicine.

We cannot change the situation, but we can help those kids to fight and win… we can give them the world they paint in blue, yellow, red … we can give them the chance to smile at the bright sun, play with the sparkling water, touch the puffy snow, smell colorful flowers… we can give them the most precious gift – LIFE…

More information and ways to help can be found on http://www.advitausa.org

Advita Fund USA is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3), tax-exempt organization.

Note: Pictured are some of the Advita's children who did not survive or currently fighting for their lives.

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$3,518

RAISED OF $10,000 GOAL

35%

DONATIONS

Anonymous	$10
Sam Sokolinsky	$15
John Edwards	$25
james mullett	$50
Michele and Eric Cwiertny	$11
Dori Patrick	$10
Adrianne Wonnacott	$20
Offline Donations	$275
Oleg Kaplun	$50
Sergei Kyrychenko	$50
Mikhail Goberman	$25
Sam Sokolinsky	$200
Joann peters	$10
Yana Petrova	$50
Kendra Kellogg	$10
Najia Arrihani	$11
Sam Sokolinsky	$25
Edward Norton	$300
Vitaly Osokin	$25
Victoria Larrazabal	$10
Robin Atkins	$10
Anonymous	$10
Leah Docking	$11
Jasmin H	$11
Martha Bailey	$10
Gemma Riley	$10
Eliane Berger	$10
Tommy Ibrahim	$100
Katherine Schmerzler	$10
Susan Reeks	$11
Samantha Willis	$10
Katherine Schmerzler	$10
Katherine Schmerzler	$20
Anonymous	$10
Carlo Garcia	$10
Anna Aleshkov...	$10
Julia Kato	$10
Katherine Schmerzler	$10
J Fleury	$10
billozac	$50
Alexa Chuzo	$20
Rachel and Brett	$10
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Anonymous	$125
Dmitry Trakovsky	$500
Marina Ouano	$20
Anonymous	$20
Nicholas Storm	$100
Chevron Humankind Matching Gift	$300
Vadim Nikitin	$40
Tom Tolleson	$500
Anonymous	$28
Sandra Birnhak	$20
Anya McDonald	$20
ben pearson	$10
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Michele	$35
Igor Kuperman	$10
Valerie	$10
Anonymous	$10
Michael Boyer	$30
Anonymous	$60
Helen Soto	$10
Barb Young	$50
Anonymous	$20
Sandra Birnhak	$25