A year after Tiago Leifert was diagnosed with cancer in her daughter Lua’s eyes, Daiana Garbin admitted she had no prediction as to when treatment would end. Meanwhile, the couple decided to launch a retinoblastoma awareness campaign.
In this way, the two want other parents to see early signs of the disease in their children’s eyes, so that treatment can start as soon as possible and not at a time that is considered late, as is the case with Daiana and Tiago’s daughter was who has two years.
“My daughter Lua is completing a year of treatment for cancer and we still have no estimate of when it will end. Tiago and I decided to start an awareness campaign for families to spot eye problems sooner than we can since Lua was diagnosed late (fortunately not too late, but late),” she told Quem.
The campaign, titled De Olho nos Olhinhos, is designed to encourage parents to make it a habit to take babies to the ophthalmologist.
“Our main opponent is retinoblastoma, which is as rare as it is dangerous and needs to be diagnosed quickly for our babies (and that makes it difficult for symptoms to appear) and also because we are not used to taking them to the ophthalmologist!” he said.
She added, “In all of this, we need to keep an eye on our eyes! All children need an ophthalmologist at least once a year. From the first months of life,” she went on to remind followers who filtered Instagram about the campaign.
Yesterday Tiago explained that he had become an activist and decided to work to change the law and avoid the ‘death sentence’ for cancer.
“Soon I also want to talk to the necessary people about changes in some laws, try to create others. In the SUS, for example, there is a law of 30 and 60 days for cancer. You have to start treatment within 60 days and have a diagnosis in 30 days. It hurts that this law already exists, because in many cases 60 days can be a death sentence in addition to noncompliance with cancer treatment,” he said in an interview with the newspaper Der Globus.
In this way, the moderator explained that he would try to speed up the processes so that the patient could have a diagnosis and be saved as soon as possible.