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Emily Cooke

Woman's sudden blindness in 1 eye revealed hidden lung cancer

Close-up retinal image of the patient's eye. Red blood vessels can be seen branching from a focal point in the mid-right-hand-side of the image. Black arrows point to the cancerous lesion and retinal detachment. The image of the eye is a circle shape and the eye appears to be a yellow color. There is a black background.

In an extremely rare case, a woman's sudden blindness in one eye turned out to be the first symptom of undiagnosed lung cancer that had spread throughout her body. 

The woman first sought medical attention after losing vision in her right eye and experiencing occasional flashes of light in her left eye for around 20 days. She was 32 years old at the time and otherwise healthy, with no other symptoms and no history of smoking. 

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