- First grader shares photos after she beat stage 4 cancer
- Sanchit singh
- Sophi Eber was diagnosed with a rare stage 4 cancer because of a fluke.The then six-year-old was hiking with her family in February 2016 when she picked up a clump of animal fur and rubbed her eye, resulting in an allergic reaction.Her eye was fine but Sophi's heart rate went through the roof, so her mother Bethany brought her to the hospital for a CT scan.Within 24 hours of the initial eye exam, doctors said Sophi had a tumor wrapped around her adrenal gland and she was diagnosed with stage 4 neuroblastoma, a cancer of the nerves.The cancer lives in nerve cells and spreads fast so doctors immediately started Sophi on chemotherapy and radiation and she was cancer-free by July 2016.However, Sophi was still recovering from her intense treatment when she insisted on attending the start of fir