Smartphones can detect eye cancer
You might have heard of this trick before, but take note — it’s literally a lifesaver. Retinoblastoma is a rare type of aggressive eye cancer that almost exclusively affects young children. It develops as a tumor in the retina but can be diagnosed with just a smartphone. Children who have the disease often have a white glow around their pupils that shows up when photographed with a flash — and it’s this fact that recently saved the life of Julie Fitzgerald’s two-year-old son, Avery.
“It saved our son’s life.”
“I just had this gut feeling in my stomach that something was wrong with his eye,” Fitzgerald told ABC News. She’d seen odd spots in Avery’s eyes in photos, but after reading a viral story about an identical diagnosis, she took…
Source:: The Verge