Breakthrough melanoma treatment saves grandfather’s eyesight
Source: Alfred Health, September 2023
Blind in his left eye after a stroke three years ago, 70 year old Geoff was fully reliant on his right eye.
But when a tumour was found in his ‘good’ eye, he feared the worst.
“The doctors told me that the most common form of treatment for eye melanoma was to remove the eyeball, which would have left me completely blind,” said Geoff, a grandfather of thirteen.