LONDON (Reuters) - British parents have turned to Google to find their child's cancer after doctors mistook her for it.
Laura Farmer Maya, 39, and her husband Thiago Maya, 40, noted that their three-year-old daughter, Beatriz, became less active, suffering from fatigue and fatigue in July, but doctors diagnosed her with a viral disease and prescribed some antibiotics.
After several months, the child's symptoms did not improve, her parents became more anxious, and terrified to discover that her symptoms indicated a neuroblastoma, an infectious cancer that affects children, with a 40% chance of long-term survival.
After looking for these symptoms on Google, they asked doctors for more tests, and blood tests showed something wrong, so the girl was hospitalized immediately.
Specialists discovered a malignant tumor over her kidney.
Beatriz began chemotherapy just one week after she was diagnosed with cancer and is scheduled to undergo eight tough rounds of chemotherapy over the next 18 months.