Amber Neely
A young girl's family credits the Apple Watch's heart monitoring features with saving her life — by helping to discover cancer rarely seen in children.
One evening, Imani Mile's Apple Watch began alerting the 12-year-old to an abnormally high heart rate.
Mile's mom, Jessica Kitchen, took her to the hospital, where doctors diagnosed her with appendicitis. During the procedure, they discovered a neuroendocrine in her appendix, which is rarely seen in children.
The doctors then learned that the cancer had already spread to other parts of Mile's body. She had surgery at C.S. Mott Children's Hospital to remove the remaining cancer.
"If she didn't have that watch, it could have been so much worse," Kitchen told Hour Detroit.
In July, the Apple Watch helped doctors discover a rare tumor in a woman's heart after she received multiple warnings that her heart was in atrial fibrillation.
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God bless Apple Watch.
(AppleInsider management: There is a very serious problem with your article website since it doesn't accept commentary from it's members. Maybe the website software needs to be scrapped.)
I had to post this from the forum webpages.
Soon….test for diabetes and blood pressure perhaps??. Game over for competition and then EU and US will file for antitrust.
Why don’t they mention which specific Apple Watch detects these things?