Eye cancer treatment with partial eye removal

Eye removal surgery remains among the most effective methods to prevent and completely cure eye cancer. Eye removal surgery is the most important part of combined therapy for advanced-stage eye cancer, especially melanoma. This treatment type remains the most popular advanced-stage eye cancer treatment method and keeps developing and improving. For example, doctors find out that the complete removal of the whole eye often hurts the condition of the second eye. The leading cause is the disruption of the so-called blood-ocular barrier (it blocks specific blood components from reaching the eye structures) during the surgery. But, when this barrier was destroyed on a single eye, the second eye barrier’s functions also worsened. So, doctors developed a partial eye removal surgery (evisceration) to save the white part of the organ and decrease a possible negative impact on the remaining eye. The patient undergoes numerous preparations and receives a general narcosis before the surgery. Next, surgeons reach the eye’s structures where the tumor is located and remove it and all other involved parts while trying to keep all other parts of the eye intact. The partial eye removal surgery might take several hours, depending on the size and number of cancerous lesions.