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Treatment for Small Choroidal Melanoma:

Patients having a small choroidal melanoma can be treated following their first

visit, but as growth assists in proving that the tumor is a cancer, your doctor

may perhaps recommend “observation” or inspecting for a small amount of

choroidal melanoma growth before treatment. Your eye cancer consultant

should talk over the relative risks and possible benefits of “observation for

growth” as compared to “instant treatment” for choroidal melanoma. As soon

as growth is recognized (usually within 6 months of observation), eye cancer

consultants or specialists will suggest perfect treatment.

Treatment for Large-sized and Medium-sized Choroidal Melanoma:

Nearly all patients with large-sized or medium-sized choroidal melanoma can

as well be treated using eye-sparing low energy radiation therapy. After

radiation for large choroidal melanoma, these eyes are at bigger risk of having

poor vision, to become awkward and may perhaps have to be secondarily

removed. On the other hand, most patients would choose to keep their eye

even if it has or pick up poor vision.

Patients having an extremely large choroidal melanoma (bigger than 22 mm

width) may perhaps be treated by eye removal (enucleation). This is because

the quantity of radiation needed to wipe out a choroidal melanoma that fills the

most part of the eye may be extremely much for the eye to endure.

Listed below are several modes of treatment available for choroidal

melanomas:

· Observation may well be appropriate for posterior uveal tumors where diagnosis

is not well proven; especially, tumors of not more than 2-2.5 mm in height and

10 mm in length can be observed till development is acknowledged