How to Survive Eye Cancer (Real Examples)06 Oct
Two examples below
When Belinda Plowman was a baby she had Retinoblastoma (Rb) which is an inherited form of eye cancer. When she was only 16 months old she had her left eye removed. When she turned five, she became an outpatient at Barts and would have to visit the hospital every year.
She had decided that she did not want to have children if they would inherit the disease (her mother had it too), but when she got married and found out that they could go in for genetic testing once she got pregnant, she decided to go for it. Fortunately when she did get pregnant and was tested, it was found that the embryo did not have the genetic mutation which would cause Rb.
A few years later, she had IVF where the fertilized eggs were tested before implantation, and later she gave birth to a healthy baby boy.
Tor Fleming got married to Andy who had Rb. When she had her baby boy, it turned out that he had the gene for Rb as well. When her son, Jarvis, was four months old, he developed nine tumors over both his eyes.
He underwent chemotherapy, cryotherapy, a radioactive plaque on his left eye and finally radiotherapy finishing August 2007. Fortunately he has no more tumors, is cancer free and has normal vision.
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