Eye cancer treatment with laser eye surgery

Patients with eye cancer often might be eligible for laser eye surgery. It depends on the tumor's exact localization, grade, stage, and cancer features. So, doctors need to prescribe various lab tests and imaging procedures and conduct some other medical examinations to ensure that laser eye surgery matches the patient and that they can successfully undergo this treatment method. Depending on the exact localization of the eye tumor, ophthalmologists might use slightly different laser eye surgery methods. Still, the main idea of this therapy method is the same: medical practitioners use a thin, highly focused beam of light to destroy cancerous cells and remove the tumor from the patient's eye. Often, laser eye surgery becomes a part of combined therapy, along with chemotherapy, immunotherapy, or targeted therapy. The patient usually needs general anesthesia during laser eye surgery. Still, the whole treatment session is quick (up to 30 minutes). Surgeons look into the eye via specific enlargement tools (usually a microscope) and destroy tumor cells with a laser-exposing manipulator. Patients might need up to 5-7 days to fully renew their ability to see and get rid of discomfort in the eye after laser eye surgery.