Help Georgiana Cosmina Dinu!: November 2009

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Georgiana Cosmina Dinu says cheerfully that she loves his Teddy bear and she likes fishing. Unfortunately, since 2 years and a half, the things she loves doing were overshadowed by a cruel disease. Innocently, Georgiana says that she has only a “small sore”. The same like last time. In this way she succeeds in encouraging her parents to keep on fighting together.

Although Georgiana is only 6 years old, she suffers from a terrible disease: neuroblastoma, briefly brain tumour.

Georgiana desperately needs our help to survive!

The last 2 years and a half from Georgiana’s life

Georgiana underwent 3 surgeries to extirpate the giant tumour from her brain, she made 13 sessions of chemotherapy, 30 sessions of radiotherapy and a gamma knife radiotherapy session. The first surgery took place on April 23^rd, 2007, exactly on her name day.

On January 31^st, 2008, Georgiana was urgently hospitalized at Elias Hospital in Bucharest with headache and tremor of inferior right limb. On February 12, 2008, Georgiana underwent the second surgery: the quasi-total ablation of the tumour.

Upon the doctors’ recommendation, parents tried to take Georgiana to a clinic in France, Hopital d’Enfants de la Timone Marseille, where a treatment against this disease was possible. The price for such a treatment was beyond any expectation: EUR 280,000!!!

For two months, her parents and the people who wanted to help them tried to obtain the financing of the treatment through the E 112 Form, but the demand was rejected. The reason of the rejection was based on the fact that the patient could also be treated in Romania. The next step was to raise the necessary amount through humanitarian actions. Unfortunately, they were not successful.

On September 15^th, 2009, Georgiana felt sick again. The medical investigations indicated intracranial hypertension. On September 22^ndGeorgiana underwent a new surgery – partial ablation of the tumour.

Her latest diagnosis is: cerebral sympathoblastoma / supratentorial PNET relapsed, surgically removed, radio-chemotherapy treated; tumoral rest radiosurgically treated.

Georgiana still has a chance!

Photo by Alexandra Dinca

Everything that could be done in Romania has been already done. Georgiana’s parents have again received the recommendation to send their child to a clinic in Hanover or Istanbul, for a radiotherapy treatment called Cyberknife, a non-invasive procedure used in tumours treatment (cancerous and non-cancerous). Neither this treatment cost can be sustained by the Romanian State. The doctors say that this treatment must be done until the end of this year.

The estimated price for this treatment, at one of these clinics, is around 30.000 Euros. For some of us this amount of money is not so big, but for Georgiana’s parents it is huge taking into account their limited incomes and the time which is running against the life of their own child.