Article: Dying Girl's Hope Is Slipping Away; Cancer Treatment Costs $90,000, and Russian Teen Can't Pay It

A 14-year-old Russian girl with leukemia has been fighting for her life in Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, and today it appears that death may be close to winning the battle.

Yet a slim chance for life remains.

By this afternoon, officials at Children's Hospital in Washington say, they must know whether the $90,000 has been raised for the bone marrow transplant that is Elena Kobzeva's only hope. So far, Elena's family and friends in the Russian American community have gathered $4,000. If there's not enough money, Children's officials say, they will not perform the transplant, and because Sinai doesn't do the procedure, Elena's doctors say that would mean she will die soon.

"I'm afraid of it," ...

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