Finding Your Way with Ocular Melanoma
Episodes
What Happens in Plaque Surgery for Ocular Melanoma?
30 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What exactly happens in plaque surgery? Learn about the steps in surgery, how the surgeon gets exposure of your eye surface to place the plaque, and h...
Post-Radiation Fatigue
30 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Feeling unusually exhausted about a month after your radiation treatment is a fairly common phenomenon among patients. Most importantly it goes away i...
All About Enucleation
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What is involved in enucleation surgery? What is it like to have a prosthesis? What are the situations where I might need to consider having an enucle...
Proton Beam Radiotherapy - An Overview
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How is getting proton beam treatment different than plaque brachytherapy? During my fellowship training, proton beam treatment at the Northwest Proton...
The Radiation Plaque
23 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The most common way to treat an ocular melanoma is by using seeds of radiation of a specific isotope, usually Iodine-125 or Palladium-103, that are co...
Glaucoma in the Setting of Ocular Melanoma
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There is an 8.6% incidence of developing glaucoma after plaque brachytherapy in ocular melanoma. Glaucoma is a highly treatable disease in the field o...
Overview of the Eye and Ocular Melanoma Diagnosis
15 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we chat about the human eyeball, where ocular melanoma forms in relation to the structures of the eye, symptoms that might happen wit...
Welcome to Finding Your Way With Ocular Melanoma - host Tara McCannel MD PhD
14 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Why do I believe we need a podcast about Ocular Melanoma authored by a physician? Welcome to Finding Your Way with Ocular Melanoma, a guide to underst...