18 People from Auburn University Diagnosed with Rare Eye Cancer

Source: WLTZ First News, February 2018

A rare eye cancer has affected 18 people at Auburn University. Coincidence? Doctors don’t know. That’s why they held a conference to try and figure out the pattern and be a support to those diagnosed and their families.
Uveal melanoma only affects about 2,000-2,500 people in the United States every year.
“There’s one patient in particular here that the first time she told us her two college roommates also had this rare cancer that peaked our interest. If she said my two college roommates had breast cancer, that’s a more common cancer. When you are talking about Uveal Melanoma, especially because the median age is 60 and this is affecting younger women, it causes you to think twice about whats going on,” said Dr. Marlana Orloff, Medical Oncologist at Thomas Jefferson University.