Ocular Melanoma News 2025 Part Two
Ocular Melanoma News 2025 Part One discussed research that will predict tumor metastasis and a treatment using tebentafusp that helps immune cells recognize melanoma cells. There are other potential treatments for ocular melanoma being developed. One in particular deals with learning why ocular melanoma doesn’t respond to immunotherapy and how that can be changed. Immunotherapy […]
Ocular Melanoma News 2025 Part One
Ocular melanoma is a rare form of cancer of the eye that diagnosed in approximately 2,500 adults in the U.S. each year. It is a malignant tumor that starts in the eyes and is most often found in fair-skinned individuals between 50 to 55 years of age. Of course, anyone of any age and race […]
2023 Ocular Melanoma Update
Ocular melanoma, despite its name is not caused by exposure to the sun. This type of cancer is found in Caucasians between the ages of 30 and 50 and occurs in 1 out of 2,500 people. As you can guess, it can cause vision loss or blindness and can spread to the brain and liver. […]
2020 Ocular Melanoma News
Ocular melanoma, known as uveal melanoma, is a rare form of cancer that affects five in one million people. Despite its name, it isn’t caused by exposure to the sun, the way skin cancer is and it represents five percent of the melanomas that are diagnosed each year. It causes vision loss, blindness and can […]
Update on Ocular Melanoma
Last year there were news reports of a group of Auburn University alumni who had all developed ocular melanoma. (See blog entry Folks with Ocular Melanoma Cluster on Social Media.) Despite its name, it is not similar to skin melanoma since it is not necessarily caused by exposure to the sun. It is a rare […]
Folks with Ocular Melanoma Cluster on Social Media
Ocular melanoma, while rare, is the most common adult eye cancer. This type of cancer occurs at the rate of 1 in every 2,500 people. Typically, it is found in Caucasians between the ages of 30 and 50. It is different from skin melanoma because it is not caused by exposure to the sun. This […]