Eye Love Day: Focus on high levels of malignancy, high metastasis rate of eye melanoma

Xinhua News Agency, Hangzhou, June 6 (Reporter Huang Wei) June 6 is National Eye Love Day, China
University Affiliated Cancer Hospital rare diseases and head and neck medicine director of physician Fang Meiyu said that the public in the attention of young people myopia, glaucoma and other common eye problems, but also need to pay attention to a high degree of malignancy, high metastasis rate of eye melanoma.
it is understood that most malignant melanomas often come from a mole in the body, which is easy to detect and attention when a mutation occurs because it is located on the surface of the skin. However, the early symptoms of eye melanoma for short-term vision abnormalities, eye irritation, etc. , easy to be ignored by the public, the vast majority of patients have liver metastasis, only to know that the cause is eye melanoma.
Fang Meiyu introduced, the early stage of eye melanoma, through local surgery or close-up film radiotherapy, patients can save the eyeball and retain a certain amount of vision, the prognosis will be better. Unfortunately, most patients find out and take treatment later, only to have their eyeballs removed.
In China's
University-affiliated oncology hospital, about a dozen patients with eye melanoma are treated each year, with an average age of over 40 years old, some of whom are treated with supplementary treatment after eye removal, and about half of whom have relapsed after eye removal.
the horror of "eye melanoma" is that even if the patient has had his eyeball removed, there is still a 50% chance of recurrence. And a major feature of malignant melanoma is its susceptible to metastasis. Fang Meiyu mentioned that melanoma in different parts of the transferable parts are also different, longer on the skin is easier to transfer to the brain and lungs, and eye melanoma is the most likely to metas transfer the part of the liver.
experts said that the cause of eye melanoma is mainly external bright light stimulation and their own genes, but the specific cause of individual cases has not been identified. Fang Meiyu reminded that daily life should try to avoid the eyes by bright light, at the same time, for the eye examination can not be ignored, "general medical examination of the eye-related examination can not see the bottom of the eye, it is recommended to do a mirror examination every three years or so, if found abnormal as soon as possible to professional medical institutions." "