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Cure
rates for nonmetastasized ocular cancer are very
high—but at a steep price. Despite advances in
radiation, chemotherapy, and laser therapies,
enucleation, or surgical removal of the eye, is
associated with the highest rate of cure. For
adults, enucleation is tragedy enough. For children
born with a genetic predisposition to eye cancer,
enucleation can prove an even crueler fate,
stealing vision just several years after birth and
before language is even acquired or mastered. As an
alternative to eye removal, and to reduce
intraocular tumor size or destroy tumors outright,
physicians are exploring innovative uses of
ultrasound, heat, cryogenics, targeted radiation
"seeds"
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Neoplasms
Diagram
of the Eye
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Overview:
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Tumors
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Rehabilitation
After Treatment for Eye
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for Eye Cancer
Treatment
of Intraocular Melanoma by
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