Help my nephew fight cancer

My name is Elycia and my family was recently given the dreadful news that my 7 year old nephew has cancer. I'm starting this fundraiser on behalf of my sister, Eliane, her husband, Michael, and their two children Dominic and Cedric who live in Washington.

This all started a few weeks ago when Dominic got a CT scan for having blood in his urine and bladder incontinence. They discovered he had a large mass in his left kidney and suspected it to be cancerous so he would require surgery to remove his kidney. May 4th Dominic was admitted to Marybridge children's hospital and May 6th he had the surgery.

The surgery took 5 hours but was successful and the kidney was sent to pathology to see if it was cancerous. They also placed a port cath during the surgery to prepare for the possibility of chemo treatments. Since pathology would take 3-5 days for results, he was discharged from the hospital however, they couldn't go home as they needed to stay close to the hospital and wait the results so they've been staying in a nearby hotel. They hired an integrated oncology specialist to be a part of the team to work with the main oncologist throughout Dominic's post-op care for the most natural and best way to keep him healthy and strong throughout this process and provide a higher percentage rate of no relapses in his future.

May 13th they received the preliminary reports. It's a blue cell tumor which means it is a cancerous tumor but it's not wilms (Nephroblastoma) or a number of others that they had originally suspected. They suspect now Ewing's Sarcoma, Seattle children's hospital will be testing for that. It's a rare cancer with 70-80% cure (a little less successful than wilms).

They want to do more scans next week to confirm nothing has spread to the brain, but the surgery margins went very well so as of right now they think any of the cancer cells in his body would be microscopic, which chemo will kill off. They have an appointment on Wednesday the 25th to find out the whole report and what Seattle has determined.

May 16th they got word on what the hospital is billing insurance.

Facility charge: $194,183.50

Physicians: $10,970

And this doesn't include chemo treatments, follow up visits or the hernia surgery and removal of the port cath! They haven't received the clinical or oncology bills either those will be separate.

Michael has insurance that should cover 80% however, the remaining total will likely be around $50,000 at least based on these bills alone.

And this isn't over yet.

It's been an incredibly stressful and emotional time for them, so if we can ease even a little of that stress financially, it would be so appreciated.

Thank you for taking the time to read.

We'll update you as we learn more.