A mum has welcomed news that a life-saving test allowing doctors to spot a rare form of eye cancer in babies in the womb is being rolled out by the NHS.
Now, babies identified as being at risk of developing retinoblastoma can be monitored and treated sooner – increasing the chance of saving their eyesight and potentially their lives.
Siani Bainbridge, 22, from County Durham, had retinoblastoma herself as a child and feared her baby boy, Oscar, might carry a faulty gene known as RB1 which causes the potentially deadly cancer.
