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For any copyright, please send me a message.  A toddler battling a rare skin condition that gives her a 'Batman mask' is heading to Russia for treatment.  Luna Fenner was born with Congenital Melanotic Nevus - an abnormally dark skin patch composed of pigment-producing cells called melanocytes.  It affects just 1.5 per cent of the world's population and puts sufferers at an increased risk of developing a cancerous melanoma.  In Luna's case, she was born with a large dark 'nevus' on her face which is reminiscent of a Batman mask.  Her mum Carol, 35, of south Florida, has been searching for a treatment and only found doctors in the US willing to perform laser surgery.  But following media attention earlier this year a Russian surgeon came forward and offered to perform pioneering treatment which is not available in America.  Carol said: “They have technology there that isn’t available in the US yet, in the US it would take four years for Luna to be treated, but in Russia I’m told it will be 18 months.  “The doctors in the US kept giving me different advice, I felt so lost, and didn’t know what to do.  “Everybody thinks I’m crazy to go to Russia but I have done a lot of research and gained advice from several doctors and I really think that this is the best option for Luna right now.”    It took doctors six days to diagnose Luna's condition after her birth in March 2019.  Carol said: “I was in complete shock. When Luna was first born nobody in the room knew what the condition was.  “My last ultrasound before the birth had revealed nothing abnormal."  MRI scans did not detect cancer but Carol was warned that the condition could evolve into the disease in future.  She began desperately searching for surgeons who could perform operations to help her daughter’s condition.    Full-time mum Carol said: “A surgeon in Boston all told me that Luna must be subjected to over 100 sessions of laser treatments.  “I didn’t feel comfortable with that, I wanted her to start school at the right time and feel like she could fit in with the other kids.  “Other surgeons in New York, Chicago and Florida told me that laser would be the worst thing for Luna. They all had very different opinions about what to do and when.”  Just as Carol was losing hope a new message arrived from across the world.   She received a message from the office of surgeon-oncologist Pavel Borisovich Popov, MD, PhD of  laserterapy.ru .  Carol said: “He had seen Luna’s case in a Russian newspaper and he said he had some options for Luna that weren’t available in the USA yet.    After discussions with Dr. Popov, Carol and her husband, Thiago Tavares, 32, who works in construction, decided that they would give it a try.  Carol said: “They will check her and d

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