Symptoms of eye cancer

• Shadows and flashes of light in your vision
• A dark patch in your eye is becoming bigger.
• Partial or total loss of vision.
• Bulging of one eye or both
• Blurred vision.
• Pain in or around your eye, although this is rare.
• A lump or growth on your eyelid or in your eye that's increasing in size.

Risk factors

• Age and Gender: Eye melanoma can happen at any age but is more common in old age, and it more commonly occurs in males than females.
• Ethnicity: It's more common in Asian and Hispanic ethnicities.
• Eye color: light-colored people suffer more than dark-colored people.
• Genetic inheritance: BAP1 cancer syndrome is a rare inherited condition in which family members are at increased risk for uveal eye melanoma.
• Moles: Different types of moles on the eyes and skin can cause melanoma in the eyes.
• Family History: Uveal eye melanomas can run in some families.

Diagnosis

• Direct Ophthalmoscope (slit lamp): The slit lamp tends to have more magnification and looks directly into patients’ eyes with magnification.
• A gonioscopy lens is a special mirrored lens that is placed on the cornea. It can be used to look for tumor growth in areas of the eye.
• X-rays and MRIs create images of the eyes and help to locate tumors and their size. Also, help: To help find a suspicious area that might be cancer
• To help determine the stage (extent) of cancer.
• Ultrasound is a very common test used to help diagnose eye melanomas. Ultrasound uses sound waves and their echoes to take pictures of internal organs or masses.
• Optical coherence Tomography: Create a light wave to visualize the total picture of tumors.
• Fluorescence Angiography: This helps the doctor see the blood vessels inside the eye. Although melanomas.