About 200 hospitals worldwide are offering safe cancer treatment for boys like Pavlo and Kyril.
Pavlo, who has bone cancer, was transported from Ukraine to Poland with his mum, Lesia
He is one of many Ukrainian children with cancer being assessed by an international team of doctors before being flown abroad for medical care - 21 of whom have been sent to the UK.Not so long ago, Pavlo was a healthy toddler living peacefully with his older sister, mother and father near Lviv, in Ukraine.
Pavlo and his mum travelled in a convoy of vehicles taking 40 child cancer patients and 100 family members from the Western Ukrainian Specialized Children's Medical Center, in Lviv, to the Unicorn Clinic - a hotel-turned-triage-centre - in central Poland. They are the fifth group to be transported there since early March.
As early as the third day of the war, he realised it was no longer possible to treat them safely in Ukraine."They are catastrophically ill," Dr Kizyma says. "So they could all die with the interruption of treatment, thousands of them or even more. Without treatment they have no chance. With treatment, 70 to 80% can be cured."
"We had an operation scheduled. We were already at the hospital with my boy," she says. "My husband called me in the morning and said 'the war has started'. Our Dnipro, the city where we live, was being bombed. Volunteers at the Unicorn Clinic are ready to offer support where they can - and some are also refugees themselves, like therapist Ina Anbousi.Ina came with the first busload of children fleeing Ukraine in early March, and has helped the wellbeing of all those who've passed through the clinic since.
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