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Hello!
I am the mother of Nikolai Burov. My son is 19. It is very hard to ask for help to a grown-up child, but some circumstances are stronger than us.
Nikolai has always been a communicative and kind boy, he played sports and was on the school's soccer team. He loves animals, and we have a dog at home. But he got into trouble. In 2005 my son got sick. For 6 months the doctors in the city of Orel could not arrive at a diagnosis. Only in 2006 in Moscow he was finally examined and diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma. It was like a bombshell, our whole world was turned upside down, but we were told that the disease could be cured. From 2006 till December 2009 Nikolai has been treated in Moscow at the Blokhin Research Institute of Children's Oncology and Hematology. It is impossible to describe how much he had suffered during that time: 8 BIOCOPP courses, high dose chemotherapy, surgery, bone marrow autotransplantation. Despite the disease he entered the Orel State Technical University in 2007, where he is now a sophomore.
Since January 2010 Nikolai has been getting treatment at the Raisa Gorbacheva Children's Hematology and Transplantology Institute in St. Petersburg. Nikolai has no compatible donors in the International registry. Unfortunately Nikolai's brother cannot be his donor either. The doctors are now planning a haploidentical bone marrow transplantation (bone marrow transplantation from parents who are a partial match). This surgery is very hard on the body, and the rehabilitation period is going to be very lengthy. All this time Nikolai will need expensive drugs (antibiotics, immunoglobulins) and examinations (e.g. PET - around 15,000 roubles) as well as a scan of all bones.
Everything our family used to have has long been spent on Nikolai's treatment. We will be grateful for any hep we can get. Please help me save my son! Thank you all so much!

Vera Vasilievna, Nikolai's mother
Home address:
Polesskaya 47-41, 302028 Orel, Russia
Contact phone:
+7 (953) 625-17-99
+7 (915) 505-78-41

Update as of March 26, 2010. Based on preliminary donor search, Kolya does not have matching donors at the registry. Based on the test results, he does not have bone marrow involvement, so autologous bone marrow transplantation is planned for him.

Update as of April 30, 2010. On April 22, Kolya received bone marrow transplant. He is now in cytopenia and has fever.

Update as of July 14, 2010. Kolya recovered after autologous bone marrow transplant. He achieved stabilization. However, his condition is complicated by a serious herpes infection. Kolya was referred for treatment at his place of residence, Orel. In the next few days Kolya will return to St. Petersburg for radiation therapy.

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