You can’t give up

Maksym’s parents remember how happy they were during 2017 New Year celebration when the treatment ended. They had only one wish – health for the son! The boy lived in remission for two and a half years. He returned to his usual life playing football with his older brother, beginning to prepare for school... Suddenly the disease returned. A control MRI examination revealed a tumor.

Instead of going to school Maksym returned to the hospital. The parents brought their son to consult the best specialists. And the boy was prescribed with the special protocol that included metronomic chemotherapy and the targeted drug Avastin. Now this medication is not available and the family cannot afford to buy it. And the treatment cannot wait as every delay means that the child’s condition gets worse. Let’s help Maksym get back to his childhood together!

Name: Maksym Boyko, 20.08.2012

City: Pokrovsk, Donetsk region

Diagnosis: meduloblastoma