In the year 1934, Fiona Fairlie was only 18 months old. Her father was playing with her one afternoon and made a discovery that would forever change her life. There was not much information distributed in those days about childhood cancer, especially not about the …
Diagnosis: Retinoblastoma Sophia’s “Glow” was first noticed as photographs were being uploaded from our camera to the computer. She was three months old, but some of the photos had been taken a month or more prior. Photo after photo revealed a pearly white glow in her …
Diagnosis: Coats’ Disease Nurul and Rifqi live in Jakarta in beautiful Indonesia. Nurul says her son Rifqi was a very active, creative and inquisitive little boy. Growing up in Indonesia, Rifqi loved to spend his time playing video games, drawing anime and creating his own superhero …
Diagnosis: Retinoblastoma Introduction:KnowTheGlow had the opportunity to speak with Anita and Aakanksha Gupta last month—a mother and a daughter who share a common diagnosis of retinoblastoma and triumphant recovery. As you’ll read in Aakanksha’s own words, her surgery was slightly delayed due to the Covid-19 but …
Diagnosis: Familial Exudative Vitreoretinopathy Meg and Stew were very concerned to see a white reflex in the pupil of their two year old son Luca’s eye after they took photos using the flash. They were well aware that this Glow can potentially be a sign of …
Posted on 2021-04-20 Know The Glow is proud to highlight the work of Poorvi Saxena from Pune, Maharashtra, India. Poorvi is a 2nd year Bachelors of Optometry student studying in Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University, Medical College School of Optometry in Pune. She is interested in …
Dr. Clare Gilbert, Mr. Richard Bowman and Dr. Aeesha Malik have been diligently working to increase global awareness and early detection of blinding and even potentially deadly childhood eye diseases (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5820629/). Based in London, their collective reach spans the globe from Latin America across …
On behalf of the entire Know the Glow team, we are excited to announce that Austin is the winner of the 2nd annual “Navarrete Championship of Awareness Belt Award”! Austin is a true Superhero who is determined to share his experience fighting Retinoblastoma to …
Every Tuesday, Megan Webber, Co-Founder of KnowTheGlow, starts her day with a 6:30 am zoom call with Dr. Himika Gupta and her team as they are winding down their day at 8 pm in Mumbai, India—which means Dr. Gupta is at the end of a …
As the Country Director for Orbis India, you would assume that Dr. Rishi Raj Borah has an origin story similar to that of many pre-eminent advocates leading the charge in the early diagnosis and treatment of childhood blindness; but Dr. Borah’ story is more a …
