In mid-September of last year, 14-year-old Dilrabo suddenly started complaining to her parents about headaches. This had never happened before; the girl had been in good health up to that point. The parents were worried, but thought it might be due to the excitement of the beginning of the school year. Plus the family was expecting a new addition - two Dilrabo twin brothers were about to be born. The girl was given a couple of painkillers, all the unpleasant symptoms disappeared. But in early October, the headaches were followed by nausea and vomiting, and Dilrabo also complained of numbness in her left arm and leg. Her father urgently took his daughter to a local hospital (Dilrabo's family lives in a small Uzbek village), the girl was hospitalized, and examinations were conducted, which showed that the child had a volumetric chordoma of the skull base.
A chordoma is a malignant, relatively rare tumor. It can be classified as a type of sarcoma, which is a general term for a group of cancers that affect bone or connective tissue. As soon as the girl's diagnosis became known, doctors in Uzbekistan immediately recommended that the parents go as soon as possible to Moscow, to the Burdenko Scientific and Research Center for Neurosurgery, because only this medical institution has effective treatment methods for the disease.
The family flew to Moscow urgently. Moscow neurosurgeons performed Dilrabo's surgery, the tumor was removed, but the treatment was not over. In order to completely rule out a recurrence of the disease, the girl needs to undergo radiation therapy. The treatment for the child has to be paid for and is very expensive, because Dilrabo is not a citizen of the Russian Federation. The girl's parents have no money to pay for the treatment. Together let's help the girl to defeat the disease.
