A young girl whose eye was removed as a baby when doctors found a tumour has been fitted with a sparkling new “superhero” replacement.
Daisy Passfield, eight, was diagnosed with a grade D tumour in her retina when she was 14 months old, with doctors removing it during a four-hour op months later.
After years of wearing a blue prosthetic she has now opted for one in her favourite colour - pink glitter- which to her delight was fitted over the summer.
Daisy, from Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire, said: "I feel happy because everyone can see my pink sparkly eye.
"I am so excited to show everyone at school my sparkly eye, I think they will love it just like I do.
"Everyone I have spoken to has said how lovely it is.
"I have been told it looks like a superhero eye, a dragon's eye and a unicorn eye and I like all those things."
Daisy's mum, Alysia Passfield, explained she noticed there was something wrong with her daughter’s eye while looking at a picture of her.
The 30-year-old added it was initially 'tough' trying to get a diagnosis for the condition before she was diagnosed with retinoblastoma - a rare and aggressive form of eye cancer affecting babies and young children, mainly under the age of six - in October 2015.
Six rounds of chemotherapy failed to shrink the tumour before she started intra arterial chemotherapy.
Instead of shrinking it however it split in two, leading to fears it could spread, convincing the family to have the eye removed.
Alysia said: "By September 2016, we made the decision to remove her eye, because the chemo she had broke the tumour into different parts and we didn't want the tumour to spread.
"Daisy has always been into sparkly things, make-up and making herself look pretty.
"We went to our appointment, I said to the woman about Daisy having a different coloured eye and they said they can do that.
"[Daisy] is one of the most confident people I have ever met.
"The only thing she can't do is drive a combine harvester or fly a plane but I don't think we have to ever worry about that happening."
Childhood Eye Cancer Trust says 50 cases are diagnosed a year in the UK - or one child a week.
It represents 3% of all childhood cancers and 10% of cancers in babies under the age of one in the UK.
