The family of a brave Ontario toddler is struggling to make ends meet after little Mateo lost his right eye to cancer.
The one-year-old had his eye removed last summer and wears a prosthetic one, but he is still not cancer free.They were told the devastating news that their baby had cancer in August.
Mateo, baby brother to Lucas and Marcus, was diagnosed with a rare form of eye cancer known as retinoblastoma, after doctors found close to a dozen tumors in both eyes. “Once he got out of surgery and I saw the patch on his eye, that was pretty bad, pretty hard,” Mateo’s father Jorge Alfaro said. But as Mateo grows, so do his needs. The one-year-old’s prosthetic needs to be re-fitted as he gets bigger.
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