Parboo who was in the United States receiving treatment with the assistance of US-based Medical Charity, Saving Hands Emergency Aid (SHEA) is back in Guyana after being cleared of the disease. Just last year, her arduous victory over leukemia occurred when she was just three years, the young girl was diagnosed Retinal Detachment—a condition that needed urgent medical attention.

Retinal Detachment is an eye condition which was causes her to rapidly lose her vision. It is a symptom or complication of some cancers, particularly those that spread to the eye (metastatic cancers). The nine-year-old’s medical history and journey with cancer was recently documented by SHEA, who dubbed Parboo a hero in her own right. The first time cancer showed up, Parboo was only three. She was tiny, soft-spoken, full of curiosity, and all of a sudden, she was gravely sick. Doctors in Guyana told her parents Verney and Omesh Parboo that it was leukemia. But they didn’t have the treatment she needed. It was one of those moments where everything feels like it’s falling apart, and you don’t know what to do next. However, her parents, found a way.

With help from the SHEA Charity, the most kindhearted doctors who were willing to give her a fighting chance and a wave of support from kind strangers, the then three-year-old Parboo got on a plane to the U.S. to start treatment. After months of chemotherapy, injections, bone pain, raging fevers and hair loss; all of it happening in the midst of the global COVID pandemic, she fought hard and she beat it.  Her cancer went into remission, and she finally got to go back home to Guyana. It felt like the storm had passed.

In short space of time, little Chayanne Parboo was in school, growing up carefree and happy like any other child until she started complaining about pain in her eye. At first, it didn’t seem too serious. Retinal detachment, the doctors thought.

But something didn’t sit right with her parents. So they asked for further testing. And just like that, the floor fell out from under them again. The cancer was back, this time, in the form of a tumor behind her eye. They questioned: “After everything she’d already been through; how could this be happening again?” (Kaieteur News)