Woman spots baby’s eye cancer online

nhboy

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"It wasn’t easy for Madeleine Robb to send an e-mail to another mom warning that her baby might have a deadly form of eye cancer. But she’s glad she did it — and so is the mother of 1-year-old Rowan Santos.

“I didn’t want to scare her,” Robb told TODAY co-host Meredith Vieira from London on Thursday. “But then I weighed out the options. If something wasn’t wrong, then no real harm was done. If something was wrong, I really had no option, so obviously I had to tell her.”

Just hours after reading the e-mail, Megan Santos of Riverview, Fla., learned from a doctor that Rowan has a potentially deadly form of childhood cancer called retinoblastoma."

Woman saves baby’s life — by e-mail - Health - Today.msnbc.com
 
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Beth_kennedy

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wow, how sad for her to lose her eye but wonderful she is going to be ok...I wonder why Doctors did not notice...is it only noticeable in photos?
 
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Beth_kennedy

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kom526 said:
Because the probable answer to your question is in the article.
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"“It usually happens in infancy or early childhood, and doctors precisely look in a baby’s eye with that light looking for a certain kind of reflection. When that reflection is abnormal, it raises the risk of whether this type of tumor is there.

“That white reflection you see in the baby’s eye is sometimes picked up just on routine photography — in this case, a Web picture. But what you hope is that doctors will see it internally before it gets to this stage.”

So again, I am not sure what you are trying to get at.
 
kom526

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Santos said she and her husband, David, had noted a slight change in Rowan’s eye color. But the white shadow only showed up in a flash photo, and the cancer was not detected when Rowan had a routine checkup at 9 months.

Why not? “Sometimes doctors miss things,” Snyderman explained. “Sometimes it’s there, but it’s so faint, it really appears later. It’s hard to put blame. Somehow it was missed. With our increasing number of premature babies, there are other problems that could also sort of look like it.

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Beth_kennedy

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kom526 said:
Santos said she and her husband, David, had noted a slight change in Rowan’s eye color. But the white shadow only showed up in a flash photo, and the cancer was not detected when Rowan had a routine checkup at 9 months.

Why not? “Sometimes doctors miss things,” Snyderman explained. “Sometimes it’s there, but it’s so faint, it really appears later. It’s hard to put blame. Somehow it was missed. With our increasing number of premature babies, there are other problems that could also sort of look like it.

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Again, what's your point???
 
doubtfull24

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My son has always had a glare in photos is it normal I took him to a optometrist a few years ago and the tests were fine except he needed glasses. It's really scary to even imagine your child could ever have this. Does this photo look normal?
 

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kom526

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If you have concerns, take the picture in question and go to an ophthalmologist, not the optometrist.
 
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missperky

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doubtfull24 said:
My son has always had a glare in photos is it normal I took him to a optometrist a few years ago and the tests were fine except he needed glasses. It's really scary to even imagine your child could ever have this. Does this photo look normal?
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Looks like red eye..:shrug: But I'm no doctor.
 
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I can't remember the name of the person I took my son to but he was part of the shah associates Dr.Lafeer referred me to him.He did several tests including dilating his pupils and said his eye's were ok. I will make him an appointment any suggestions of where to take him?
 
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missperky said:
Looks like red eye..:shrug: But I'm no doctor.
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I'm sure it probably is just red eye which would be great but you never know. Like I said before almost every picture I take of my son his eye's have a glare or white spot. It's better to be safe and know for sure.
 
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kom526 said:
“Sometimes doctors miss things,” Snyderman explained.

Better?
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No, not really. I understand Doctors miss things, I just do not understand why you called it out...

But it is Friday and I am slow after lunch.
 
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missperky

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doubtfull24 said:
I'm sure it probably is just red eye which would be great but you never know. Like I said before almost every picture I take of my son his eye's have a glare or white spot. It's better to be safe and know for sure.
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Find software and edit the picture to take out the red eye and see.
 
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surfer1

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If you had him checked by a eye doctor then he should be fine. If that wasn't an eye doctor and you want final peace of mind try Dr Nancy Morrison. She is a pediatric eye doctor in waldorf in pembrooke Square. Good luck.
 
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