Woman diagnoses cancer via e-mail

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By Junko Iseri (544)

SUMMARY:
A British woman found a sign of cancer in a picture which was sent by her 'internet-friend'.

Mrs. Robb who is a British woman and Mrs. Santos who is an American woman became friends through the Internet because they have a big common fact. They have borne their children on the same day.

Mrs. Santos sent her pictures of her girl who became 1 years old to Mrs. Robb. Mrs. Robb noticed a sign of cancer through these pictures because she remembered an article of that. The sign of cancer was the reflection a light in the infant's eyes.

Mrs. Robb suggested Mrs. Santos by an e-mail to take her girl to the hospital and see the doctor. Then, Mrs. Santos took her advice and went to the hospital to have a check-up for her daughter on the same day she received the e-mail.

In the hospital, Mrs. Santos's girl was diagnosed as Retinoblastoma. This is a kind of cancer of eyes, and it's rare. The infant still has been in the illness, but there is a possibility that she will be able to recover because her cancer was found in the early stage.

Mrs. Robb and Mrs. Santos have never met because they are 'internet-friends'. However, Mrs. Robb saved the life of Mrs. Santos's daughter. Mrs. Santos owes her girl's life to Mrs. Robb, she said "Even if we waited even one more week, the tumor could have reached her brain and her prognosis would have not been good.".

An e-mail saved a girl's life.

MY OPINION:
These days, there are many problems of the Internet; for example, fraud and bullying. There are many arguments about the Internet in the world, but I think most of these arguments are about the bad effects or side of the Internet. However, this article shows us that there are good effects of the Internet. If there was no tool like the Internet and the mother didn't use it, the small girl would be threatened with death. As this article said, "An internet chat led to early diagnosis of cancer". I hope this article could be a prompt to remind us that there are many good effects of the Internet. Sometimes, there are some people say that friends who met through the Internet are not real friends, but I think Mrs. Robb and Mrs. Santos are friends truly even though they have never meet.