Melanoma is a type of cancer that develops in the cells that produce
melanin — the pigment that gives your skin its color. Your eyes also
have melanin-producing cells and can develop melanoma. Eye melanoma is
also called ocular melanoma.
Most eye melanomas form in the part of the eye you can't see when
looking in a mirror. This makes eye melanoma difficult to detect. In
addition, eye melanoma typically doesn't cause early signs or symptoms.
Treatment is available for eye melanomas. Treatment for some small
eye melanomas may not interfere with your vision. However, treatment for
large eye melanomas typically causes some vision loss.
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If I understood the news broadcast on NBC Nightly News Correctly it appears that Jimmie Carter may have in his brain cancer in 4 places at this time. He is age 90.
So, if I understand this correctly one can get melanomas in their retinas? This would be really hard to detect by the way and so would make sense that they might metasticize into a person's brain before they would be detected.
This might be a good reason to have really good sunglasses when you go out in the summer sun, out on the ocean or up into the mountains. All these places (especially sun on water or sun on snow(one really needs really good sunglasses) to protect their eyes especially in the summer time.
I have never had a melanoma but I have had many squamish cell and Basil cells cut off my face and back since 1995 when my Aunt died from a forearm melanoma metasticizing into her intestines and killing her. Luckily for me, it is sort of a plastic surgery type of operation when on the face so I actually looked younger when they took one off the side of my nose. (especially on one side). It only took a few hours and then with a bandage on my nose for a few weeks while it healed up around the stitches.
However, I have never had anyone look inside my eyes for this but maybe the eye doctors when you get glasses look for this? I know they look for Glaucoma when they examine your eyes and dilate your pupils
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