Doctors in India reported the strange occurrence last monthseemingly the first of its kind ever documented.
The case wasdescribedin 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.
The black arrows are pointing to a large subretinal mass found by the woman’s doctors in her right eye.Image: Singh et al/Radiology Case Reports via CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED
She also occasionally saw flashes of light in her left eye.
These symptoms, however, werent accompanied by any pain or redness in her eyes.
Tumors in the eyes are thought to bemost often causedby cancers that have spread from elsewhere in the body.
Stranger still is that the womans blindness appeared to be the first sign of her lung cancer.
Either way, they argue that such patients represent an important and distinct subset of lung cancer cases.
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