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Imagine you’re a parent of a child diagnosed with cancer and told your child could be cured but your country is too poor to provide treatment...
For 15 years we have been helping children with life-threatening illnesses from poor countries. We arrange treatment in European hospitals where they cannot be treated in their home hospitals. Since 1996 we have arranged 124 Bone Marrow Transplants and provided vital medicines to hundreds of children who could not pay and had no other hope of survival. We have worked without publicity but now we need to find additional funds to cope with ever-increasing requests to help save the lives of children who will otherwise die. Please help us to continue saving these children.
Paul O’Gorman Lifeline (Registered Charity No. 1108060) Long Barn, Houghton, Arundel BN18 9LN. E mail: info@lifelinegb.org Web: www.lifelinegb.org |
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Kolya was born with severe immune deficiency and could only live in an isolation tent unless a bone marrow transplant could be arranged
Paul O’Gorman Lifeline (Registered Charity No. 1108060) Long Barn, Houghton, Arundel BN18 9LN. E mail: info@lifelinegb.org Web: www.lifelinegb.org
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Please help us to continue saving these children and donate now. |
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Severe Combined Immunodefiency (SCID) is a rare condition in which a baby is born with a faulty immune system. Babies with SCID are lethally vulnerable to infection, and are often diagnosed when a vaccination causes a life-threatening reaction. The only curative treatment is a bone marrow transplant, which infuses the donor’s immune system. Kolya’s brother and sister had already died before they were 1-year old. The trouble was that Kolya lives in a very poor country without any possibility to cure him. When Lifeline heard about Kolya we brought him to a Western hospital where a donor was found. After treatment lasting a year, Kolya is as healthy as any other 2 year-old and has returned home with his happy parents. His treatment cost £70,000. Lifeline has already arranged 124 bone marrow transplants, but every month there is a new Kolya whose life needs saving. |
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Unless Dinara can be treated abroad she will die from her bone sarcoma
Paul O’Gorman Lifeline (Registered Charity No. 1108060) Long Barn, Houghton, Arundel BN18 9LN. E mail: info@lifelinegb.org Web: www.lifelinegb.org
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Dinara is one of 28 children diagnosed each year in Kyrgyzstan with the bone cancer osteosarcoma. In the West we have made tremendous progress in saving children with this terrible disease (see graph of Rizzoli Hospital Bologna results below), and limb-sparing surgery is now routinely performed. In Kyrgyzstan all children undergo amputation, but still they all died through lack of adequate chemotherapy. Four years ago, Lifeline started taking these children to specialist European hospitals, where the treatment costs £30,000 for each child. Kyrgyzstan, in Central Asia, is one of the world’s poorest countries, and the economy is far too small for them to be able to afford cancer drugs and the special titanium implants needed to save the child’s limb. In 2011 we arranged for a bone sarcoma specialist to visit the Kyrgyz Republic and he has introduced modern chemotherapy protocols to be used prior to travel abroad. But for the foreseeable future we will need to treat children abroad if we are to save their limbs and their lives. |
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