Please Help 11 Year Old Marina. She needs surgery to remove a tumor and to correct her hearing loss.

My daughter was born without an auditory canal and a deformed outer ear. In 2013, we were sent to St. Petersburg for surgery to restore her hearing. There doctors found that Marina had a large tumor – a cholesteatoma, which had already managed to damage the inner ear and destroy her auditory bones. The tumor was removed, but, as it turned out, not completely. It began to increase again, which can lead to serious infections of the brain, even meningitis. Doctors were not able to restore her ear canal. We then turned to a hospital abroad, where doctors, in a single operation, will be able to restore the ear canal and ear drum, remove the tumor, and create a new ear out of advanced synthetic material called a Medpor implant. In other hospitals, it takes at least five operations for this to work. Marina will be able to hear! This is what we want most, but our dream can only be realized with your help! Irina Ankudinova, Vologda region. California Ear Institute Otolaryngologist Joseph Rober