Welcome to the assistant version of Eyesight, An Insight. It appears that you have come to the assistant version for the first time. This is an information page which will come only once for your knowledge. You can always get this page from the Assistant image (pull down menu), placed on the top of every page.

Please Note: This version of this site uses Agent Technology and VB Scripting which are ONLY supported by Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0+. You need to have Active X and Java Cookies enabled.

This version has been created just to enhance your experience to our site. An assistant will appear and will guide through the whole site, plus the most appropriate advantages of it is, that you don't have strain your eyes to read anything on the site... All the information will be read by the assistant for you.

The Assistant who would be helping is Genie (copyright Microsoft Corp.), which uses the Microsoft Agent 2.0 Technology. For this version to work properly you need a few programs to be installed:

These three files are needed to run this version. If you are not sure we would recommend you to download all the files. Otherwise the scripts will try to stream the character file, which on slow or medium connections is not feasible. The streaming is done through Microsoft servers, therefore we do not have any hold on them and we can't guarantee their uptime.

Source(s): Agent Technology, Genie Character file, copyright of Microsoft Corporation. Text-to-speech engine is a copyright of Lernout & Hauspie TruVoice.

  

About 200 children are diagnosed with retinoblastoma (eye cancer) each year in the United States. This cancer affects about one out of every 20,000 children, accounting for 3.1% of all childhood cancers. Most children with retinoblastoma are under four years of age. About 75% of children with retinoblastoma have a tumor in one eye. In about 25% of cases, both eyes are affected.