May 7, 2009
Phone pics out tot's eye cancer
According to The Sun mother discovered her baby had a deadly cancerous tumour after taking the baby's picture with a new camera phone.
Every time she photographed the eight-month-old a strange glare from Thomas’ eye appeared on the snap.
The glare from the camera revealed light sensitive cells in his eye which could not be seen face-to-face — a sign of the killer disease.
“To look at him before you would never have seen anything was wrong. “His vision was fine and he was just like any other happy, smiling eight-month-old.
... Elizabeth and schoolteacher husband Neil now want other parents to check their children’s eyes. She added: “Many people would take the photograph and just think it was a problem with the camera, especially if it’s a phone camera. “I do think what if I had not got a new phone.
The obvious question is what cameraphone?, but so far the story doesn't say.
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