Her doctors say it's the first case of blindness being the only sign of metastatic lung cancer ever found in someone with no clear risk factors.
A woman’s blindness in her right eye turned out to have an unexpected and frightening cause: metastatic lung cancer . Doctors in India reported the strange occurrence last month—seemingly the first of its kind ever documented. The case was described in a paper published in Radiology Case Reports in early April. According to the report, the 32-year-old woman visited doctors 20 days into losing vision in her right eye. She also occasionally saw flashes of light in her left eye.
But it’s “extremely rare” for vision impairment to be the leading symptom of a person’s advanced lung cancer, the doctors note. As far as they were able to find, there have only been around 60 such cases ever described in the medical literature. But even these cases have tended to involve people with known risk factors for lung cancer, such as being older or having a history of smoking. Stranger still is that the woman’s blindness appeared to be the first sign of her lung cancer.
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Woman's sudden blindness in 1 eye revealed hidden lung cancerEmily is a health news writer based in London, United Kingdom. She holds a bachelor's degree in biology from Durham University and a master's degree in clinical and therapeutic neuroscience from Oxford University. She has worked in science communication, medical writing and as a local news reporter while undertaking journalism training.
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