This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece is part of a series dedicated to the eye and improvements in restoring vision. In 1999, I defined ...

Debbie Hensley, second from the right, shares a happy moment with her husband and nine grandchildren. "I need to be around a little longer for them, to watch those grandkids grow a little," she says.

Most people are familiar with melanoma in the skin, which is a very dangerous cancer that can spread from the skin to different parts of the body and cause death. Melanoma can also occur inside the ...

AUBURN, Ala. (WSFA) - May is Ocular Melanoma Awareness Month to bring more attention to a rare type of cancer that develops in the eye. It’s so rare, it only occurs in about 6 of every 1 million ...

ATLANTA -- It's the health story worthy of a mystery writer: Over 50 people, including more than three dozen who attended Auburn University some two to three decades ago, have been diagnosed with ...

Cancers that happen in and around the eye are very rare. The most common type of eye cancer that happens in adults is ocular melanoma, sometimes known as intraocular melanoma. This is when melanoma ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. This story first appeared in Healthy You - January 2025, The Gazette’s quarterly health publication.

Uveal melanoma (UM) is a rare cancer that develops in the pigment-producing cells within the uveal layer (uvea), which is the middle layer of the eye. UM is also known as intraocular melanoma. Early ...

Eye cancer occurs when cells in or around the eye multiply uncontrollably, forming a tumour. These tumours can be benign (non-cancerous) or malignant (cancerous). Malignant tumours can grow and spread ...

The Hepzato Kit is the first FDA-approved liver-directed therapy for unresectable metastatic uveal melanoma, showing ...

Like many people with a freckle in the back of their eye, Debbie Hensley never knew she had one — until it potentially threatened her life. The retired teacher went in for a routine eye exam in ...