Prevention Why should I care?

Wearing UV-protected sunglasses when You should care about Intraocular (Eye)
outside in strong sunlight. Wrap-around Melanoma because it could effect you
sunglasses with 99% to 100% UVA and UVB eventually, and is causing lots of people
absorption provide the best protection for the impaired vision. And lets be honest guys, ALL
eyes.
CANCER IS BAD!! With Intraocular (Eye)
Melanoma being a cancer in the first place, that
Treatments
should be reason enough to stop it.
Surgery is the most common treatment for
intraocular melanoma. Sometimes surgery
includes the removal of the eye and eyelid, and
muscles, nerves, and fat in the eye socket. After
surgery, the patient may be fitted for an artificial
eye to match the size and color of the other eye
or a facial prosthesis. Another treatment is
Radiation therapy.

Where did it go wrong?

About 50% of cutaneous melanomas have

a mutated or damaged copy of the BRAF
(pronounced bee-raf) protein. A BRAF mutation Sources:
makes the cell divide out of control and resist
death, causing cancer Cancer.org

Cancer.gov Intraocular
Mayoclinic.org (Eye)
Melanoma

By
Intraocular (Eye)
Melanoma
 Unique Charateristics
The cancer doesn’t show any symptons during
the earlier stages. It is often found during a
regular eye exams.

Diagnose
What is Intraocular
Your doctor will examine the outside of your
Melanoma eye, looking for enlarged blood vessels that can
Intraocular (uveal) melanoma is a rare indicate a tumor inside your eye. Then, with the
cancer that forms in the eye. It usually has help of instruments, your doctor will look inside
Causes
no early signs or symptoms. As with your eye. Other methods to diagnose
You are at high risk for Intraocular Melanoma if Intraocular Melanoma are Eye ultrasounds,
melanoma of the skin, risk factors include
you have skin that freckles and burns easily,
having fair skin and light-colored eyes. angiogram, Optical coherence tomography, and
and does not tan, blue, green, or any light
colored eyes, and are older and white Removing a sample of suspicious tissue for
Explore the links on this page to learn more
testing.
about intraocular melanoma, its treatment, Effects
and clinical trials.
• Blurred vision or other
change in vision.
• Floaters (spots that
drift in your field of
vision) or flashes of
light.
• A dark spot on the iris.
• A change in the size or
shape of the pupil.
• A change in the
position of the eyeball
in the eye socket