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Choroidal Melanoma: Clinical Trials and What Have We Learned from Them

  • Sidharth Puri
  • Aparna RamasubramanianEmail author
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Abstract

Choroidal melanoma is the most common primary intraocular tumor but its incidence is only around 5 per million. In spite of the rarity of the tumor, well conducted clinical trials have significantly altered the management, improving the overall prognosis. This chapter highlights the key clinical trials that have brought a paradigm shift in the management of choroidal melanoma.

Keywords

Choroid melanoma Uveal melanoma Collaborative ocular melanoma study (COMS) Gene profile assay 
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Acknowledgements

No financial interest associated with manuscript

  • “This work was supported in part by an unrestricted institutional grant from Research to Prevent Blindness, NY, NY.”

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Kentucky Lions Eye CenterUniversity of LouisvilleLouisvilleUSA

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