Benefit held for 13 month old with eye cancer

Story Created: Jan 8, 2012 EST

Story Updated: Jan 8, 2012 at 7:05 PM EST

UTICA, N.Y.(WKTV) The sounds of a Zumba class filled the air at Dance Works Studio in North Utica Sunday afternoon.

More than 50 young women and girls all paid $15.00 to take part in an hour long class and every penny of that is going to the family of one year old old Savana Redmond.

Redmond was diagnosed with retinoblastoma in October. Its a rare form of eye cancer that effects about 250 children in the United States each year.

Savana's mother Susan took part in the Zumba class Sunday, she even had Savana in her arms at times during the class.

Susan Redmond and her husband have traveled with their little girl to Philadelphia's Wills Eye Institutes several times in the past two months. The Wills Eye Institute is where Savana has already received two rounds of inter-arterial chemotherapy for advanced stages of the cancer. Susan Redmond says it's a new kind of chemotherapy performed on only about 40 kids so far, her daughter Savana is one of them, "so it was either that or remove her eye and we opted to try this first."

Susan says she is so greatful to her friends and Dance Works for putting this benefit together and she says all money raised will be used for to help the family pay for their trips to Philadelphia.

Source: http://www.wktv.com/news/local/Benefit-held-for-13-month-old-with-eye-cancer-136914018.html

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