A very rare type of cancer, known as retinoblastoma, is very difficult to diagnose and detect. Mainly occurring in kids aged between two to four, it simply skips its detection due to lack of early symptoms. Often by the time it is detected, it is too late for treatment and the results are often fatal. Also it can easily metatised and spread to other parts of the body.

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It can take a lifetime for the patient and his family members to know that something is wrong with the eye of the patient. But only last month, a lady detected his nephew's eye cancer when she saw that the pupils of his eyes appeared white in color, rather than the normal red in a photograph, which she took. The usual "red eye effect" was missing in his pictures. It raised an alarm and the doctors were surprised to find that she was cent percent right, the kid was indeed infected with eye cancer, which was successfully removed.

Recently, one more such case was highlighted. Julie Fitzgerald, mother to a little toddler Avery, in the city of Illinois, noticed several dark white spots in the back of her son's eye, which she ignored initially, states USA Today.

When she came across the earlier article, she went on to click more pictures of her son, fearing at every step that her worst nightmares are about to come true. Called popularly as the "smartphone test," she clicked her son's pictures with the flash mode kept on. And she saw one of his eyes appearing as white and one as red, states The Indi Channel.

Julie and her husband Patrick immediately took their son to the hospital where the doctors confirmed that 75 percent of Avery's eye was covered in tumors.

Avery's eye was removed and he is now recovering.

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