Head of the Oncohematology Department of the Kherson Hospital and Anastasia  
Anastasia Leshchenko

15 years old
(born July 26, 1989)

Acute lymphocytic leukemia,
T-cell, neuroleukemia

Before her disease, Nastya lived in the town of Borislav, Kherson region.

When the girl felt unwell in May, her parents at first decided that it was the flu. However, her condition became worse and worse. An ambulance car took Nastya to the town hospital, and the next day she was transferred to Kherson.

Nastya and her mother did not bring anything. They came to the hospital in those very dressing gowns in which they left their home. Their family is of very "moderate means" as is often said now. In simpler words, they are just poor.

The very first block of chemotherapy affected the girl's kidney and liver, caused gastric problems and rapid deterioration of eyesight...

Anastasia's parents Natalia and Alexander ask everybody:

Dear people, help us cure our daughter, our beloved Nastya! We will be grateful to you for any help. The Bible says, "He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will he pay him again" (Proverbs 19:17)."

EXCERPT
from case history

Anastacia Leshchenko was first admitted to the Kherson Children's Regional Clinical Hospital in May 2004 in extremely grave condition. Diagnosis: acute lymphocytic leukemia, T-cell. Treatment according to protocol I BFM-90 was complicated by severe ulceronecrotic stomatitis, uterine bleeding, agranulocytosis. Clinical hematological remission was reached by the 36th day.

After treatment according to protocol I, the girl had extra-marrow relapse: neuroleukemia with subsequent lesion of optic nerve disks, left eye blindness.

Continues treatment at the hematological department. Receives aggressive chemotherapy, which may cause complications in the form of bleedings and infectious diseases.

For reduction of complications, needs disposable sets for platelet phoresis by the Sova apparatus, peripheral catheters, spinal needles, last-generation antibiotics, colony-stimulating factors (Neupogen, Granocyte), antiemetics.
 

Head of the Oncohematology Department
of the Kherson Children's Regional Clinical Hospital

V.G. Red'kina

N E W S

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.