A 7-month-old baby in the U.K. has been diagnosed with a rare form of eye cancer that was first spotted in family photographs.
Parents of Newcastle baby girl Frankie-Leigh Hendry were told earlier this month that their infant has retinoblastoma, a rare cancer, which is also the most common type of eye cancer in children. The condition is often detected in infancy when a parent notices something abnormal about a child’s eye in a photograph taken with flash. In Frankie’s case, a family member pointed out the oddity to the baby’s mother, Megan Athey, in the pictures she took. A web search later hinted it could be a cancer, later diagnosed as retinoblastoma. A few hundred children in the United States are diagnosed with this form of cancer every year.
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