Help 17 year old Shruthi undergo cancer treatment

I am helping to raise funds for Shruti V from India with no medical insurance, my 17 year old cousin sister, who has been diagnosed with Ewing Sarcoma off the chest wall. She is in her advanced stage 4 cancer. Ewing sarcoma is a cancerous tumor that grows in the bones and in the tissue around bones of the legs, pelvis, ribs, arms or spine. She is receiving Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy (salvage protocol) and has been planned to undergo Radiotherapy and Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation within the next few weeks. She is only 17 years old, such a beautiful and humble girl pursuing her 11th grade and ready to almost graduate from her highschool. Her ambition in life is to become a scientist.

Shruti is a very bright student with top grades and an excellent performer in academics. She was diagnosed with the tumor last year. The family did all they could do with their savings to support her treatment. Her cancer has regenerated recently and in advanced level. The whole family is devastated and going through very tough times. Her dad is a retired traffic police from India. They are managing to live their lives with his pension income and cannot afford the cost for the ongoing treatment. Expenses include frequent surgeries, chemotherapy, doctor visits, MRI, PET and CT scans. They have been making bi-weekly to weekly visits for chemotherapy lately and is becoming a huge burden in managing the expenses with their single income.

Her doctors told her she has 1 year to live with the treatment and conventional medicine. She has to undergo the stem cell transplantation to have a comparatively less painful days remaining of her life. The plan is to do everything the family can to stop seeing their daughter suffer through her immense pain. Shruti plans to beat this and stays positive to return to her school and achieve her ambition in life. They are going all-in with complete faith to make her survive from this rare tumor  which affects 2% of children worldwide. 

This has been a very tough time with a virus that is killing people in her position so as she fights this disease during COVID-19. I ask you to help out anyway you can, if you don’t have a donation to spare please spread the word & share her story.

We all want to see this amazing young girl beat the odds and get back to her normal life that any teenager would deserve!