Sasha Sokolova biography

The disease and death in May of the year, being in Israel on tour with the group, Sasha Sokolova learned that she was sick with cancer at 4 stages. After the course of chemotherapy, it was decided to try experimental treatment, in particular virotherapy. Despite the negative forecasts of doctors, she continued to be quite active in concert activity, managed to record the Mir-album and star in the video for the song “Jordan” together with Noize MC.

I died on September 24. Alexandra Sokolova a year ago received a terrible diagnosis from doctors. At that time, the metastases have already spread to the main part of the internal organs, and the doctors said that the girl was left to live for no more than a month. However, Alexander has been fighting with the disease for about a year and continues to give concerts in the cities of Russia.

Sasha, how is the treatment at the moment? Are there enough means that are transferred from concerts and charity? There is not always enough money, but still lucky in the fact that on the most necessary they appeared due to the help of our listeners, friends and relatives. Now I can already afford to travel around the country with tour, actively give concerts, which brings additional funds.

I feel like a healthy person who is a little dented: there is increased fatigue, but I am already standing and not lying. The diagnosis was made to you in Israel. How did it all start? For example, everyone ate fish, everyone was fine, I was poisoned. Or on vacation I pick up the flu while everyone is healthy. In this regard, she underwent an examination in the city clinic and precisely on those bodies, which, then recognized, were affected by cancer.

But the doctors did not find any signs of the disease, they simply did an ultrasound, they did not send to oncology. Although at that time the cancer has already reached the second or third stage. At this time, it developed quickly. Perhaps I myself am to blame: I did not think that the tumor was happening, but it is difficult to assume that you are sick with this.

You think symptoms can be a manifestation of anything, but not cancer. In Israel, the disease was revealed due to a number of circumstances associated with the place of stay of the group. We did not stop in a very comfortable, several Pankovsky two-story garage at the highway in Tel Aviv. Motors are made on one side of it, construction is being carried out on the other, respectively, there are a lot of construction dust around.

There is nothing to breathe, under the windows the passage passing by is noisy, the Internet barely catches, a lot of mosquitoes. Sergey participant in the project "Atlantida Project" - author. For a healthy person, such a place is suitable, there is even some romance in this, but in the case of me it aggravated the symptoms of the disease, which is to some extent good: if I had not got into the discomfort zone, then a deterioration in a relatively short period of time could not occur, and it is not known when the disease would be discovered.

During a serious state, it is difficult to make a decision. At first, the symptoms do not seem so sharp, you think: you are bad, but now you will lie down - and it will pass. And now I’ve been lying for a week now, we’re going to Jerusalem, we give a concert, I even manage to portray some kind of Brack Dance on the stage, to crawl down the floor slightly.

Then a friend from St. Petersburg agreed with one local family to take me to his place. Once in normal human conditions, where there is a shower, a bed, I could no longer stand on my feet normally. Standing at the mirror, I see how much I lost weight, and against the background of this, a huge swollen stomach is seen. Sergei and I are already waiting for the end of the worst tour in the world, I hold on to painter at concerts.

But the peak of common sense came after the last performance in Tel Aviv: then we turned to the Israeli doctors, and it rushed. What tests fell out at the same time? It seems like then the money should be returned upon arrival, but for this you need to overtake a bunch of thresholds, go through the bureaucracy again. It turns out that insurance can not be done, except for formal requirements.

Secondly, after a couple of days, preliminary survey results appeared: cancer of the fourth stage. Immediately after this, the group and our administrator began to beat the bells about the collection of money for treatment. We did not expect that people would respond so quickly and with such a powerful chain reaction. Many famous and unknown people showed the initiative, they themselves offered any help, arranged charitable concerts in clubs, whose organization took place in several cities.

Where did chemotherapy go? Together with chemotherapy, an operation was prescribed. According to the generally accepted standard of treatment, a patient with cancer needs to take several chemistry courses until the main metastases are killed, later the operation and again chemistry. But if the metastases are already scattered by all organs, body, a person is considered inoperable.

The standard scheme, the patient does not go beyond chemistry and simply dies, and not from cancer, but from such procedures, because the blow from chemistry is throughout the body of the body: all rapidly dividing cells are destroyed. Therefore, my hair fell out, in the second week of treatment I could no longer walk.But there is a special supportive therapy that provides the support of the whole organism: blood, brain, heart, stomach, etc.

This includes blood transfusion, the adoption of a huge amount of hematopoietic drugs. It is strange that not everyone knows about her, doctors prescribe it to few. How did you find out about its existence? Chemotherapy was supposed in it, but at the same time he sent me to Germany for hyperthermia - a procedure that complements and enhances chemotherapy, minimizing its side effects, and at the same time allowing you to take less drugs.

Along with this, the scientist prescribed a huge amount of supporting drugs, after which I started to walk again, although there was strong weakness. It was lucky that the operation that I was appointed in Munich was postponed. This time showed: maintenance is valid, and it is not necessary to cut out vital organs. Have you also passed virus therapy? What can you tell about this?

The bottom line is that drugs containing viruses that are dangerous for cancer cells are introduced into the patient's body, but completely harmless to the person himself. In my case, this is the mouse flu virus. It recognizes cancer cells and destroys them without prejudice to healthy organs. In the world, virus -therapy has not yet received green light, but research is underway, including in Russia.

There are patents, official practice. It cannot be considered a therapeutic drug so far: additional checks, research are required. For example, there are standards of security levels through which you need to miss the virus. This requires a lot of money, which, of course, does not have scientists now. Despite the already large number of studies in the field of virotherapy, it is also not a panacea, and even some people who were treated simultaneously with me have already died.

But, in my opinion, work on improving this method has great prospects. What are the results of treatment with viroterpium reached you?

If in August last year 12 liters of ascitic fluid were pumped out of me, then by October there were 5 liters during the second pumping. Domestic doctors say that such a drug does not always and not on everyone. Testing is required than researchers now do. In the case of me, the tumors disappeared to the mass: earlier the largest reached an area of ​​5 centimeters, now see the process continues.

How do conservatives relate to virotherapy? For example, in Germany, in Dudershtadt, there is a clinic officially practicing, but it costs a lot of money: 5 thousand euros are taken for one injection of Newcubus virus. Whoever cannot afford it goes to Riga: there they produce a rigvir virus, but for a much smaller spectrum of cancer, such as melanoma. Plus, the treatment is experimental, is at the infancy, and not only in Russia.

Until the matter is sponsored by the state, it is impossible to put it on a wide leg. At the initial stage of treatment, you did not have the strength to do something. Now it is possible to combine an active struggle with the disease with no less active work. What made me not stop? And she praised. Then I began to write a children's fairy tale about a blue fox. It is unfinished, but I plan to continue writing, I often think about it.

Touching upon creativity as a whole, I understood: if I survive, life will definitely change, including stereotypes of happiness. After chemotherapy, the degradation of some vital organs occurs. If, after this, at least the "kettle" will be in order, you need to enjoy it as much as possible. You begin to appreciate every second of stay in this life, past experiences, depression do not make any sense.

You can breathe, watch the beauty of the world. The shift in the mind of the mind is noble, you learn to have fun, doing the most beloved business. So I continued to sing, wondering that the voice was still on the spot, although the diaphragm was affected by metastases, and the bodies necessary for singing the body muscle were not used for a long time. You begin to learn to sing, learn your own body, look at yourself differently, and show healthy egoism.

Against the background of this, I knew for sure: more than anything else I like to write songs, which means that you don’t need to think about anything, but just sit and write. Creativity helps to fight or vice versa? And what does "at least the second" mean? Much more songs are written, they do not let me go. Therefore, it was creativity that stimulated to fight.