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Objective  Help scientist and artist Kat Viva fight brain cancer



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$5,812  Amount Raised:
$10,000   Fundraising Goal:

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Dr. Katja Viventsova, 49 years old, is an 18+ month survivor of brain cancer. Kata's artistic name is Kat Viva, and, as that name implies, she loves life.

She needs whatever financial support you can afford to help her pay for her treatments which now cost more than $5,000 per month.

In April 2007, she had several partial seizures, which local doctors did not recognize as seizures. In April, her CT Scan was inconclusive. Then, on May 5, she completely lost consciousness and was flown 300 km by ambulance helicopter to Thunder Bay where another CT Scan confirmed the tumour, and was then flown to Sudbury, Ontario to await her first brain surgery on May 11. Her daughters, Tatiana and Evgenia, came from Sweden to be at her side.

Her tumour was confirmed as grade IV glioblastoma multiforme, and she was given about a year to live. It is the same type of tumour affecting Sen. Ted Kennedy in the USA.

After radiation and various chemo treatments, Katja is still fighting to live, in spite of enduring three brain surgeries, blood clots in the lungs, many many seizures, pneumonia, and other hardships.

After her third surgery in late June 2008, she had several weeks when her health declined rapidly. It was a desperate time. She had 1-2 seizures every hour that she was awake. She was largely confined to a wheel chair. A fall in the shower left her chest sore for weeks.

In August 2008, an MRI showed that the tumour had already grown back to about the size that it had been when she was scheduled for surgery in June. In addition, two new tumours had appeared.

On August 11, 2008, we made the hard decision for her to start treatment with Avastin, a drug not yet approved for brain cancer, but one that has helped about half of GBM patients who had tried it. Avastin has rare, but potentially life threatening side effects. Her treatments cost about $3,700 every two weeks, with 20% reimbursed by the manufacturer, Our medical insurance will not cover it because it is not an officially approved treatment.

Avastin, with another drug CPT-11, has reduced the size of her tumours, and her recovery since August has been amazing. Recently her oncologist, Dr. Vergidis, called it "a miracle".

On Nov 14-15, 2008, she participated in the annual Marathon Fall Craft and Art Fair, staying throughout the whole thing, something she could not manage to do a year earlier.

Anything that you can give to keep this miracle going will be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,

Mike

Dr. Michael A.D. Ferguson

PS: For more information about:

Katja's fight with GBM, visit http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/katviva

Art by Kat Viva, visit http://katviva.ixot.com/

Katja's career as an environmental scientist, visit http://www.ulapland.fi/home/caes/SelfPresentation/KViventsova.htm
 
 
 

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