Treatment of uveal melanoma
Eye Melanoma - Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Memorial Sloan Kettering is a leading center for eye melanoma diagnosis and treatment. We take a multidisciplinary approach to care.
Treatments for eye cancer | Canadian Cancer Society
Treatments for eye cancer include surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. Learn about treatment plans and options for eye cancer.
Brachytherapy, enucleation, proton beam radiotherapy, transpupillary thermotherapy, photocoagulation, photodynamic therapy, and local resection. Frequency, 5 ...
Uveal Melanoma | Published in Georgetown Medical Review
The gold standard for treatment of uveal melanoma is plaque brachytherapy. Other treatment possibilities for uveal melanoma include enucleation, ...
Proton Therapy for Ocular Melanoma | Conditions & Treatments
Proton therapy is a form of radiation therapy using protons, which are charged subatomic particles, to treat melanoma in the eye.
Treatment of metastatic uveal melanoma - Via Medica Journals
The methods of local surgical treatment of metastatic lesions in the liver provide some chance for long-term survival but are possible in a ...
Diagnostic methods and therapeutic options of uveal melanoma with ...
Plaque brachytherapy, the most commonly used eye-preserving therapy, is suitable for small- and medium-sized uveal melanomas. Proton beam ...
Treating Uveal Melanoma: Past, Present, and Future - Retina Today
With a 5-year survival rate of 81% in the enucleation arm and 82% in the brachytherapy arm, and a 10-year survival rate of 65% in both treatment arms, the study ...
New Era for Treating Metastatic Uveal Melanoma
The FDA approved tebentafusp (Kimmtrak, Immunocore) for the treatment of unresectable or metastatic uveal melanoma in human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-A*02:01– ...
Symptoms · A new dark spot on the iris · A change in the size or the shape of your pupil (black area of the eye) · Blurred vision or other change in vision · Spots ...
Choroidal Melanoma: Practice Essentials, Overview, Pathophysiology
Enucleation is the classic approach to choroidal melanomas and has been the preferred treatment for large (basal diameter >15 mm and height >10 ...
Revolutionizing Uveal Melanoma Treatment: SCANDIUM-II Trial ...
Revolutionizing Uveal Melanoma Treatment: SCANDIUM-II Trial Combines Chemotherapy and Immunotherapy for Promising Results ... Uveal melanoma is the most common ...
Uveal melanoma as a target for immune-therapy - Oliva
Uveal melanoma (UM) is a rare disease that can be deadly in spite of adequate local treatment. Systemic therapy with chemotherapy is usually ineffective.
Uveal melanoma - Cancer Treatment Reviews
The current treatment of metastatic uveal melanoma is limited by the lack of effective systemic therapy. The intrinsic resistance of uveal melanoma to ...
The Current State of Systemic Therapy of Metastatic Uveal Melanoma
This narrative review provides a timely and comprehensive overview of the current treatment landscape for metastatic UM.
Uveal Melanoma: Comprehensive Review of Its Pathophysiology ...
7. Current Treatment Methods. The current therapeutic landscape for UM primarily revolves around surgical interventions (i.e., tumor resection, enucleation, or ...
Successful treatment of metastatic uveal melanoma with ipilimumab ...
We present a patient with metastatic UM who first suffered extensive progression under treatment with tebentafusp but in the following had an excellent ...
Squamous cell cancer of the conjunctiva. Treatment includes surgery to remove the cancer, freezing therapy (cryotherapy) and chemotherapy eye drops.
Uveal Melanoma: Trends in Incidence, Treatment, and Survival
Conclusions. The age-adjusted incidence of uveal melanoma (5.1 per million) has remained unchanged from 1973 to 2008. Despite a shift toward more conservative ...
Conservative treatment of uveal melanoma: Local recurrence after ...
Documented growth occurred in nine of 665 (1.4%) patients with small and intermediate size tumors, at times after treatment ranging from 6 to 48 months (median ...