Tymon, a boy from Złotnik near Poznań, who suffers from a very rare and malignant brain tumor, ended hospital treatment in the USA, the boy’s parents said. – Tymek won for the third time – the boy’s mother wrote on Facebook. Last year, about PLN 2,3 million was collected for the treatment of a six-year-old child.
The boy has been fighting cancer of the choroid plexus for several years. A gene mutation makes the cut tumors grow back. A chance for the boy was treatment in a center in the USA, but to be able to go for it, it was necessary to collect about PLN 2 million within a few days.
The money was collected through an online collection and during numerous events organized with Tymek in mind. Thanks to this, in December last year the boy was able to fly with his father to the children’s hospital in Columbus.
As Tymek’s mother informs, his hospital treatment is over.
– For 5 months he was taking very strong cytostatics. So strong that after each cycle his own stem cell transplant was necessary for the body to rebuild itself. We believe that this fight ended the whole war – said Magdalena Klimaszewska.
As she added, although the therapy was very burdensome for the whole organism, Tymek is in good physical and mental condition. – There is great strength in a small body. After returning to Poland, he will take medications to prevent relapse for at least a year, she informed.
Thinking about the sick boy, at the beginning of December in the capital of Greater Poland, a “Snow Picnic Let’s Save Tymek” was organized with concerts, auctions and a barbecue party. Crowds of Poznań residents appeared at the event; the event also enjoyed great media attention. The collection of money for treatment was conducted mainly through the siepomaga.pl portal; almost 85 thousand people paid in this way over PLN 2 million.
At the end of last year, Tymek’s parents informed that they were fighting an “unequal fight” for their son’s life.
– Excised malignant tumors grow back every now and then. My son has already had nine brain surgeries, each of them deadly. We thought we won, that the cancer finally went away. But then the results of the research came: Tymek has a mutation in the tp53 gene, which means that cancer will never give up. We have the last chance to escape death – treatment at the Nationwide Children’s in the US – then wrote about their situation.