He retinoblastoma It is a cancer that develops in early childhood, before the age of five. It is a cancerous tumor in the retina, a layer of nerve tissue in the back of the eye that detects light and sends images to the brain.
To detect it, a very powerful light is used that, when it affects the pupil (the black circle of the eye), makes it look white. For a better detection of this disease, the British association Childhood Eye Cancer Trust (CHECT) launched a campaign with posters throughout the city that proposes to make a very simple check with a tool we all have at home: the camera flash. Curious, right?
On the posters that have been distributed throughout the city (bus stops, clinics, health centers, etc.) a child's eye is shown. If you take a flash photo of the poster, it appears how it would look if it had a retinoblastoma. Thus, it is intended that prevention be carried out from home in a simple way and available to everyone.
If when you take a flash photo of your child you detect that his pupils appear whitish, it is an alert sign to go to the ophthalmologist. It's not about going flashing to children right and left, although we usually do it without medical purposes, or confuse it with the typical "red eye", but it is a simple way to detect any anomaly.
