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Thursday, 3 September, 2020
About Hethashree
Hethashree, is a 14-year old teenager who lives with her family of 4-members including her Parents and a younger brother(11-years old). Her mother is a house wife and father is an account manager at a construction company, 9 -months back he had a brain-stroke due to which he had to stop working.
Hethashree is studying in 8th Std, along with her younger brother who is in 4th Std at Louis High School. She is very active when it comes to sports activities and is a track-runner at her school. She loves spending time with her family at home and in her free time enjoys listening to music.
Medical Details
In January 2020, she started having pain in her legs, hence; her parents took her to a physician near Nandini Layout. She was administered with painkillers which weren’t effective in easing the pain. Gradually over the next few months she had developed a lump in her leg. Concerned about this, her family took her to ‘Fortis Hospital’, where she underwent an MRI-Scan . The orthopaedic confirmed the presence of ‘Osteosarcoma’ and referred the family to HCG Hospital.
At HCG Hospital, they consulted Dr. Pramod. Hethashree got a PET-CT Scan and Biopsy done, post which she underwent 2-cycles chemotherapy and surgery. April 1st, 2020 was when she started her first cycle of chemotherapy along with a chemo-port-insertion. She is yet to undergo four more admissions of chemotherapy and two surgeries
Recent Update
Hethashree has completed her treatment.
