Dr. Cameron Javid is a physician at Retina Associates, which is based in Tucson, Arizona. He and his colleagues at the Retina Associates practice offer patients treatment for conditions of the eye, including choroidal melanoma and many other ocular tumors.
Choroidal melanoma is a malignant condition that affects the choroid or the blood-vessel layer underlying the retina. Patients typically do not experience symptoms. Thus, the melanoma is often discovered during routine eye exams. When symptoms do occur, they may include floating objects, flashes of light, and distortion in the patients’ eyesight.
Patients who have been diagnosed with a small choroidal melanoma may be treated or its growth may be monitored to ascertain whether the tumor is cancerous. Typically, the growth can be documented over several months or years with an ultimate decision regarding treatment. Depending on the size of the melanoma, treatment options include low-energy radiation therapy and enucleation (which refers to the removal of the eye). Dr Javid is involved in national clinical trials for ocular tumors.
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