[Faline]

Originally Posted by Sebring ↗

Some people don't even know the tumor is there until they notice one of the eyes are glowing in a photo.

I would post a picture but I'm on my phone and its being pissy today. So much for smartphones. Kelly maybe you can find one?

[HmnTrch]

Originally Posted by Sebring ↗

Catsratz, I bet it was a stye. They're little abscesses that develop in the upper or lower eyelid and they usually drain by themselves.

what a dumb ass doctor he went to see if the guy couldn't diagnose a stye!

[Faline]

Melanomas arise from pigment cells in the body, and in the eye, those cells are in a complex called the uvea. The uvea is of the vascular middle layer of tissue in the eye, which is why it’s also known as the “vascular tunic”. You can see the melanoma in this photograph pushing between the retina (on the inside of the eye), and the sclera (the outermost layer).

The iris, ciliary body, and chorion are the three constituents of the uvea, and melanomas can arise from any of those areas.

[Degb69]

My 5year old has a mole on her eye. It's right where the iris meets the sclera? If you look at her eye from the side, you can see its raised. We've had her checked out. Everything is fine, vision and other wise but we have to keep an eye on it in case it changes due to cancer or other issues.

[Wikan]

Originally Posted by Degb69 ↗

My 5year old has a mole on her eye. It's right where the iris meets the sclera? If you look at her eye from the side, you can see its raised. We've had her checked out. Everything is fine, vision and other wise but we have to keep an eye on it in case it changes due to cancer or other issues.

This could be a choroid nevus, although it is more typically located within the choroidal part of the uveal tract. It is quite common, so you should worry too much about it, although it has some potential to develop into melanoma.

[Wikan]

Originally Posted by Wikan ↗

This could be a choroid nevus, although it is more typically located within the choroidal part of the uveal tract. It is quite common, so you should worry too much about it, although it has some potential to develop into melanoma.

*Not worry, that is.

[Tibsim]

My wife works for an Optometrist. They had a patient that came in for his yearly, and the Dr while looking found a melanoma. She went straight out and got on the phone with the cancer surgeons etc (she does general eye surgery). After he left to go straight there, she fealt so bad talking to the staff, she told the man to stay upbeat, but in Reality she said he prob had less than a year to live the Melanoma behind his eye was so large there's no way it hadnt metastasized. I've always been scared of skin cancer as i spent a long time in the sun in my younger days, but never melanoma of the eye. And the patient, he never fealt anything wrong with his eye or vision :(

[Degb69]

Originally Posted by Wikan ↗

This could be a choroid nevus, although it is more typically located within the choroidal part of the uveal tract. It is quite common, so you should worry too much about it, although it has some potential to develop into melanoma.

It could be but from what I saw choroidal Nevus is dark, at least in all the pictures I saw. Hers is red and slightly raised. I'll see if I can upload a pic.

[Degb69]

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[Degb69]

That is the mole on my daughter's eye.