Community celebrates Fort Wayne girl’s 3rd birthday, two years of being cancer-free with fundraiser for medical costs

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WPTA) – An event held in Hoagland Sunday is celebrating a Fort Wayne girl’s third birthday and two years of being cancer-free while raising funds for her ongoing medical costs and needs as a visually impaired child.

At just 2 months old, Eliana Carmona was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer called retinoblastoma.

According to her parents, Brittanie and Robert Carmona, they learned that their daughter was born with a genetic mutation that caused the cancer and makes her more at risk of other types of cancer as she ages…

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