Despite the highly successful treatment outcomes for achieving local tumor control, long-term survival rates for uveal melanoma and large choroidal melanomas in particular remain dismal because of ...

No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript. Choroidal melanoma is the most common primary intraocular malignant tumor in adults and results in metastatic death in up ...

Lastly, a case report highlighted the challenges in diagnosing and managing amelanotic melanoma, a rare variant of ARM that lacks pigmentation and can be more difficult to identify[5]. This ...

The stage of melanoma skin cancer tells you how thick it is and how far it has spread. Doctors use different systems to stage melanoma. These include the TNM system and number staging system. The ...

The Breslow thickness describes how deep a melanoma has grown into the layers of skin. Doctors need to know the depth of a melanoma to help stage it. The stage tells you the size of a cancer and if it ...

mRNA specialist BioNTech has chalked up an important win in its cancer pipeline, showing efficacy with its BNT111 vaccine candidate in a phase 2 trial in advanced melanoma. The study is looking at ...

But there is a wide gap between how well White patients fare compared to Black patients. Melanoma is one of the cancers that it is contributing to the hopeful trend of declining cancer mortality rate ...

Recent studies utilizing Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) have significantly advanced our understanding of choroidal thickness (ChT) and its implications for various ocular conditions.

gmail.com Objective To describe the choroidal characteristics of patients with retinitis pigmentosa (RP) using enhanced depth imaging (EDI) and spectral domain (SD) optical coherence tomography (OCT).

Most cancers of the eye and orbit in adults are melanomas, but this cancer starts more often in other parts of the body. The majority of melanomas start in the skin. Melanoma of the eye is much more ...