What Are the Key Statistics About Eye Cancer?
The American Cancer Society estimates that about 2,390 new cases of all primary intraocular cancers (eye and orbit) will be diagnosed in the year 2008. Most (around 1,300 to 1,800), but not all of these will be melanomas, with lymphomas being the ... [... more]
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Detailed Guide: Eye Cancer
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What Are the Risk Factors for Eye Cancer?
Just as people with fair skin are more likely to develop melanoma of the skin than are people with darker skin, people with blue eyes are also somewhat more likely to develop melanoma of the eye than are people with brown eyes. Ocular melanoma is ... [... more]
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What's New In Eye Cancer Research and Treatment?
The Collaborative Ocular Melanoma Study is a pooling of resources of 43 medical centers that are working together to develop the best method for treating choroidal melanoma. You can find out more about what this group is researching by visiting ... [... more]
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Detailed Guide: Eye Cancer
Surgery is used to treat some intraocular melanomas but is not used to treat intraocular lymphoma. Patients generally leave the hospital 1 or 2 days after these operations. The surgical procedures used in treating people with melanoma ... [... more]
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What Happens After Treatment for Eye Cancer?
Physical examinations are done to detect tumor recurrence or side effects of treatment as early as possible. Chest x-rays and other imaging studies (such as ultrasound, CT scans, or MRI scans) may be done to watch for recurrence or metastasis. ... [... more]
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How Is Eye Cancer Diagnosed?
Pain is quite rare except in cases of massive spread outside the eye. In such a case, bulging or a change in the position of the eye may be noted. Other, less serious conditions can cause some of these symptoms. Floaters, for example, may occur ... [... more]
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Eye Cancer / Cancer.Net
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RETINOBLASTOMA: PROSTHESIS
On the first visit, the ocularist will measure your child's socket, look at the shape of the socket and match eye color. The conformer that was inserted during surgery is removed and is replaced by a temporary prosthesis. This temporary ... [... more]
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Cancer Centers Program
Download applications (.PDF format) for competing grants / non-competing grants The Sallie Rosen Kaplan Fellowship for Women Scientists in Cancer Research is made possible by a generous bequest to the Foundation for NIH (FNIH). This is a ... [... more]
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