Dear Supporters,

This is with regard to Baby Viha, a 9 month old girl who presented to us with massive mediastinal mass and was subsequently diagnosed with T-Cell lymphoblastic lymphoma and suffered multiple medical complications requiring intensive care with dialysis, prolonged ventilation, nasogastric feeds and transfusions.

She has now completed induction and initial consolidation therapy per COG AALL0434. Her CSF is clear, her tumor has shrunk, and she is well enough discharge home to continue interim maintenance chemotherapy on an outpatient basis.
She retains her tracheostomy and will need NG tube feeds and physical therapy once she is home.
I am very pleased with how this young girl has done. She obviously has a long road ahead of her and will need a total of two years of chemotherapy. but overall we are cautiously optimistic she has an 80-90% chance of long-term cure.

Thank you so much for your love and support. 

Sincerely,
Vikramjit S Kanwar  

Dear Supporters,

Thank you for the wonderful support that you have shown towards Viha. She is doing better now compared to earlier and is slowly recovering. She is still under observation in the ICU. She has successfully completed 4 cycles of chemotherapy so far and has had no side effects as such.

The doctors suggest that she will have to undergo the treatment for about another two years. She is still on the ventilator support and her dependence on the ventilator has been reduced from earlier to 10% at present. The doctors suggest that if she recovers at this pace, then she will be off the ventilator soon.

I would like to thank you all once again for all the love and support that you have sown towards my nephew Viha. Please do pray for her health and speedy recovery. Would request you to share this campaign further with your friends and family to raise funds for her treatment faster. You can share the following link with your friends and family:

https://milaap.org/fundraisers/help-viha

 Will keep you posted.

Thank you,
Jagadish,
Viha's uncle