Overview

Among tumors affecting children’s eyes, retinobolastoma is most common. This is a malignant, aggressive neoplasm, which, in the absence of treatment, can lead not only to loss of vision, but also to death. The disease is diagnosed in infants and children under the age of five. Retinoblastoma refers to congenital pathologies and can be hereditary. This is if one of the close family members has a predisposition. Eye cancer is also untraceable, which is characterized by mutations only in the child. There are several forms of retinoblasts: when one eye is affected, two eyes, or a neuroblastic tumor develops.

Symptomatology of the disease

Regularly performed, recommended by pediatricians, examination with an ophthalmologist helps to identify the pathology in time and begin treatment before the onset of complications. It is difficult for parents to recognize the presence of an eye neoplasm in a child due to asymptomatic flow at the first stages of the cancer process. The disease begins to manifest with such signs:

• Strabismus.
• The pupil reacts to a flash of light not with a red reflex, but with a white candle. And this is considered the first indicators of the presence of retinoblastoma in a child.
• Haze or redness of the eyes.
• Painful sensations in the eye.
• Eye swelling.
• Loss of vision.

Diagnosis and treatment of the disease

In order not to make a mistake with making a diagnosis, which will be fraught with the health and vision of the child, the presence of specialized equipment is required. The Children’s Department of Hemato Oncology at the multidisciplinary Israeli clinic Tel Aviv Medical Clinic has advanced, highly informative equipment. Our most experienced doctors, real professionals, regularly improve the methods, which allows you to conduct examinations with 100% accuracy of the result. The eye bottom is studied by modern technologies, among which ophthalmoscopy prevails.

Specialists will determine the size and stage of malignant formation, localization and degree of prevalence. Based on the data and individual indicators, treatment is prescribed, where the main goal is to eliminate the tumor and preserve vision. We offer a full range of high-level tariff services, as in public hospitals. After treatment, the child can recover under the supervision of doctors in our rehabilitation center.