Scientific Publications

Despite being the most common intraocular malignancy among adults, choroidal melanoma is a rare cancer type, even more so when accompanied by lung cancer.

Melanomas diagnosed during routine skin checks were identified to be related to significantly lower all-cause mortality, but not melanoma-specific mortality, post-adjustment for patient, sociodemographic, and clinicopathologic factors.

Previous large observational cohort studies showed higher blood pressure (BP) positively associated with cancer. We used Mendelian randomization (MR) to obtain less confounded estimates of BP on total and site-specific cancers.

Although systemic therapies for melanoma have been improved, the 5-year survival rate of this aggressive cancer remains poor.