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Brent Rager
@rager.tech

I once correctly diagnosed retinoblastoma in my best friend’s son. Was looking at their vacation photos on Facebook and realized the red eye effect was wrong in a way I’d read about years before. A message from me lead to him getting his eye out a week later. www.suncommercial.com/gcdailyworld...

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Share a piece of lore about yourself Yes I stole this from musky folks site…I feel like we’ll get better answers here lol

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Brent Rager
@rager.tech

I have since looked back over this and will submit an edit: He went into an experimental, impossible mountain of medical debt, spot directed chemotherapy to his eye to try and save it. It was a very traumatic experience, though with best intention, up til the eye was removed.

Brent Rager
@rager.tech

Absolutely! If this was my one good thing I’m glad it was this. Interestingly enough and speaking of early detection, our son, who is 7 now, was diagnosed as an infant with neuroblastoma, a small cancerous tumor on his adrenal gland. Which was, of course, terrifying. The fascinating part was…

Brent Rager
@rager.tech

(And you probably already know this give your profile) Studies have shown that neuroblastomas are actually fairly common and they disappear at a very high rate in infants. Japan for instance, was doing mass screenings in the 70s. The problem was that finding them often lead to worse outcomes…

cancer.govNeuroblastoma Screening (PDQ®)Neuroblastoma screening, according to solid evidence, does not lead to decreased mortality and exposes infants to potential serious harms. Get detailed information about neuroblastoma and the potentia...
Brent Rager
@rager.tech

…because usually they just go away. Which, thankfully, is what happened in our case. One of the best days of my life. I realize this kind of comes off as a “well not always” retort but your comment (which is obviously correct) just made me think of this which I’ve always found fascinating.