Category: Children
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Kristina Tarasova: They won’t cure this disease in Kursk. Look to Moscow and Maschan to save you
The sisters Kristina and Anna Tarasova (though they now go by their married names) live in Kursk, and have a remarkable story to tell us about how Kristina was saved from aplastic anaemia. There’s only one way to cure this disease: to carry out a transplant which will replace the dysfunctional bone marrow with healthy…
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Raul Abdulov: To my daughters, I’m ‘damudoc’: Dad, Mum and Doctor all in one package
The acute lymphoblastic leukaemia just wouldn’t go away. Elvira (Elya to her friends) went through treatment three times, had two relapses, and finally received a bone marrow transplant. Elya’s donor was her father Raul. This interview with a deeply beloved father and his hundred-percent-compatible daughter turned into a talk with the two people closest to…
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Zhenya Vaneeva: I don’t divide my life into “before” and “after”
As a 15-year-old, Zhenya Vaneeva was hospitalised with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. 10 years later, Zhenya recalls the past and shares her thoughts about the future.