A camera flash helped in saving the life of a 4-month-old baby boy from Scottsdale, Arizona named Ryder Temarantz.

While speaking to ABC News today, Ryder's mother, Andrea Temarantz, said in December that she had started observing that camera flashes produced a ‘white glow’ in the left eye of her son Ryder.

The 36-year-old mother said, “I just chalked it up to a bad camera phone. But even after I used a new Nikon D3300 DSLR my cousin got me for Christmas, the white glow was still there, so I took Ryder to his doctor”.

Ryder got diagnosed with retinoblastoma in his left eye on January 5. Temarantz said that a white tumor mass in the back of her son’s eye was reflecting light from camera flashes, which produced the ‘glow’ visible in a lot of pictures.

Temarantz and her husband did some search over Internet and after that they decided to take their son to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. The center has the largest team of physicians in the world, which is solely dedicated to retinoblastoma patients.

Dr. David H. Abramson, chief of the Ophthalmic Oncology Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering, said that the tumor in little boy’s left eye hasn’t spread to other critical body organs, like brain.

While talking to ABC News Today, Abramson said that worldwide half of the children who had retinoblastoma previous year lost their lives. Abramson mentioned that it’s among those cancers that can be deadly if not detected timely, so it's great that his mom observed it early and consulted a doctor.

Abramson said that the boy will undergo three to six rounds of ophthalmic artery chemosurgery.

The doctor explained that a 6-foot-long catheter as thin as angel hair pasta is put into the groin blood vessel. Thereafter it passes the belly, chest and neck and then put across the one small human eye blood vessel for the making the high concentration and dosage of chemotherapy reach directly into the tumor.