When is postoperative radiation indicated after enucleation of an ocular melanoma?
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Radiation Oncology · Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Difficult question to answer because a rare situation with limited data. Drawing on data from the Collaborative Ocular Melanoma Study (COMS), orbital recurrence after enucleation is uncommon. From COMS Report 11 of patients enucleated for large uveal melanomas, the likelihood of orbital recurrence w...