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Article: Dying Girl's Hope Is Slipping Away; Cancer Treatment Costs $90,000, and Russian Teen Can't Pay It
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- November 17, 1993
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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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