A five-year-old girl was diagnosed with eye cancer during a routine eye test after displaying no symptoms. Rachel McGovern, five, had an eye test in school which revealed she might need glasses and was referred to an ophthalmologist.
Her mum, Geraldine McGovern, 40, took her to the appointment at Sligo University Hospital in Ireland and the doctor placed eye drops which revealed a tumour in her right eye.
Doctors confirmed to Geraldine that it was cancer and transferred her Temple Street Children's Hospital, Dublin, where an MRI confirmed Rachel had retinoblastoma. READ MORE: 'Not the way I wanted you to find out': The email sent out as 2,200 lose jobs overnight at major firm Six days after her initial diagnosis, on October 16, 2022, Rachel was in Birmingham Women's Hospital for intra-arterial chemotherapy and 12 months of treatment.
A year later, Geraldine was told Rachel was in remission and in August this year, she was officially discharged from hospital.