A case of retinoblastoma found in a one-year old’s birthday picture:
When Jasmin Nethercoat had her photograph taken on her first birthday, little did her parents realise the picture would save her sight.Her mother Vicki had the photograph developed – only to notice a strange spot reflected in her daughter’s left eye.
After seeing an optician, a GP and a specialist, the family was sent to Great Ormond Street Hospital where doctors found cancerous tumours in both of Jasmin’s eyes.
There was a risk that she would lose the sight in her left eye to the cancer, called retinoblastoma, and so within two weeks she had begun chemotherapy.
Update:
Link fixed.
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Something like this was the topic of an OPRAH several years ago and prompted a frantic phone call from my mom in which she screamed, “Show me picture with both red eyes!!!” of my daughter.
Nice story.
By the way, Kevin, something is wrong with the link.
Regards,
Jon
Reminds me of a patient I cared for, a little girl named “Star”, so named because “she had a twinkle in her eye”
Unfortunately that twinkle was a retinoblastoma.
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