22-year-old beauty fights for life

To the destiny of positive and energetic Alina was fell the ordeal. She has to overcome lymphoma – cancer that can take away her life. But Alina is a girl with character and is not going to rely only on fate. This 22-year-old beautiful girl as a child was more friends with the boys, and the entertainment was respectively as the boys: she was chasing a soccer ball, playing volleyball and tennis. After graduation, she studied at the Poltava Agrarian Academy, received a specialty ecologist. Unfortunately, the girl did not manage to find a job in her specialty, so she worked as a salesman, accountant. 

The insidious disease was discovered unexpectedly. There were no alarming signs and symptoms. Once the girl, having passed a hand on her body, has found out some small neoplasm, similar to a ball. Surprisingly, there was no injury. And on Monday, along with her mother, Alina went to the district hospital to see the therapist.

The doctor examined the girl and gave direction to the surgeon. Next, a series of tests and examinations, redirection to the traumatologist. In the end, the girl was examined at the oncologic dispensary, where, according to the results of CT, a tumor was found in the thymus gland. The operation was appointed immediately. According to the results of histology – the tumor was not malignant. However, as it turned out later, the tumor was encapsulated, and in order to take a biopsy, it had to be broken. Repeated expectations of histology results. Unfortunately, the tumor was malignant. This was confirmed by the results. According to the plan, the girl was prescribed 8 courses of chemotherapy and radio rays. She passed the first chemotherapy of Alina before the New Year. Soon she will have to intervene on the third “chemistry”, for the passage of which Reditux 600 mg is needed.

This energetic girl, despite the illness, constantly finds new hobbies for herself. Now Alina is engaged in beadwork. The girl’s plans are to embroider an icon with beads and donate to a local church. And also – to recover and become healthy again! After all, she still has so many unrealized plans!

Name: Siutryk Alina, 14.06.1996

City: Mala Nekhvoroscha village, Poltava region

Diagnosis: mediastinal diffuse large B-cell lymphoma