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Cancer of the eye


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Alison

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All eye cancer Q&As

3 items found in this section.

1. My mother has a growth taken away from her eye. It was called a pterygium. Her doctors are talking about radiotherapy. Does this mean it was a cancer?

last reviewed: 01.04.2005

2. My aunt has been told she has a cancer affecting her eye. Her surgeon says it is a rare type called adenoid cystic carcinoma of the lacrimal gland. Can you tell us something about this?

last reviewed: 26.04.2006

3. My aunt has been told she has a malignant melanoma in one of her eyes. Is this right, I thought melanoma was a skin cancer?

last reviewed: 01.04.2005

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