The surgery usually includes removal of the tumor and its surrounding tissues. The Surgery for eye melanoma (like I said before) is done by an ophthalmologist, which is usually under the microscope. The Patient is usually made unconscious. Sometimes the only choice a doctor has in treating melanoma is to remove the eye. If so, a person with one eye may have trouble with depth perception. people worry about what they will look like when they have an eye removed. The cosmetic surgery available today usually yields good cosmetic results. To fill the area left by the missing eye, the person is fitted for a artificial eye. The artificial eye will look and behave almost the same as a natural eye.
Another type of treatment is “radiation therapy.” Radiation therapy is the use of high- energy x- rays or other particles to destroy the cancer cells. A doctor who specializes in giving radiation therapy to treat cancer is called a radiation oncologist. A radiation therapy schedule usually will consist of a specific number of treatments given over a set period of time. When radiation treatment is given using implants, it is called internal radiation therapy, or plaque therapy. For these treatments, the ophthalmologist places a radioactive disc, called a plaque, near the