We are parents of Egor Starostin, and we would like to ask for help!
Our son is only 3 years and 8 months, and he has already stayed at the hospital for almost 1.5 years.
Our home is in Stavropol. In June 2005, Egor got sick. His abdomen enlarged, skin turned yellow and his temperature rose.
He stayed at the infectious diseases hospital for three weeks, and then he had an ultrasound that showed a tumor on
the right side of his liver. We were referred for diagnostics to the Blokhin Oncology Center in Moscow.
There Egor was diagnosed with hepatoblastoma and referred back to Stavropol for two courses of pre-operative
chemotherapy.
After we returned to Moscow, we were sent back to Stavropol again for one more chemo in Stavropol. After it was over,
we went to Tubingen (Germany) for an operation. The operation was paid for by Irina Perepelitsa. Her daughter was sick
too, and the money for her operation in Belgium was collected by the viewers of "Russia" TV channel. Fortunately
for us, the money collected was more than what was needed for Irina's daughter, so Egor's operation was paid for as well.
Our son was in a grave condition when we brought him to Germany. His doctors told us that he had 2 more days left to live at
the most. The tumor put pressure on his organs, so his spleen was not working, and he had a thrombosis of the portal
vein. The operation lasted 9 hours, and Egor's heart stopped during the operation. Our son withstood all of this! He wanted
to live very much.
In summer of 2006, we were invited to Moscow for examination at the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences in Surgery
by Professor S. Gautier, who is a specialist in liver transplantation. After that, we were examined at the Blokhin Oncology
Center again, and Egor was found to have a metastasis in his lung. Unfortunately, we were not admitted to the hospital
due to lack of available rooms, and we went back to Stavropol.
And Egor got lucky again. The Happy World fund paid for the operation to remove the metastasis at the hospital No. 31
in St. Petersburg. Egor had to have two operations. He now needs to get at least two chemotherapy blocks to strengthen
the result of operations. Egor needs a lot of donated blood. We do not know anyone in St. Petersburg, which is why we
asked AdVita fund to help us find the donors.
Blood of any type can be donated. We will be very happy if someone helps us! Egor went through so much, and he so little
left on his road to recovery.
Vera Starostina
Home address:
355012 Stavropol
ul. Mira, d.149, kv.5.
Vitaly Starostin
Home phone: +7 (8652) 23-4384,
Cell: +7 (950) 033-4210
Update as of December 18, 2006.
Egor's chemotherapy is coming to an end. Upon its conclusion, he will be examined and decision will be made
regarding his further treatment.
Egor does not tolerate chemotherapy very well, but he feels not too bad overall. Egor's treatment at the hospital
was made possible thanks to Russian Help Fund and to the actor Oleg Tabakov who made a large donation.
Update as of January 6, 2007.
Egor's computer tomography is scheduled for January 9th. If all goes well, he
will go home on January 12th.
Update as of January 12, 2007.
Based on CT scan, Egor is doing well. On January 15th he will go home. Afterwards,
he will have to come back for checkups every two months. We are enormously grateful
to everyone who helped Egor and his mother Vera and visited them at the hospital.
Update as of January 17, 2008.
New Egor's photos: 1, 2
Update as of May 24, 2009.
Egor underwent a scheduled checkup. All is well.
Update as of December 27, 2009.
According to December examination results everything is fine.
Egor enjoys doing arts and crafts at home and is getting
ready to start school.
Update as of April 30, 2010.
Egor will come to the clinic on May 16th for scheduled tests.
Update as of July 7, 2010.
Egor came for planned tests at City hospital No.31. Based
results of tests and scans, he is doing great.
The boy feels very well.
Correspondent Bank:
Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas,
SWIFT: BKTRUS33
Beneficiary Bank:
OJSC Bank Petrovski (f. EEFC Bank Plc.)
SWIFT: PETRRU2P
Account No. 04096265
Beneficiary:
Non-Profit Organization
"AdVita Charitable Foundation",
account # 40703840712001000468
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Correspondent Bank:
Deutsche Bank AG,
SWIFT: DEUTDEFF
Beneficiary Bank:
OJSC Bank Petrovski (f. EEFC Bank Plc.)
SWIFT: PETRRU2P
Account No. 100 9497918 1000
Beneficiary:
Non-Profit Organization
"AdVita Charitable Foundation",
account # 40703978312001000468
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