GENES LINKED TO MELANOMA OF THE EYE IDENTIFIED

Source: medicalresearch.com, May 2020

There are approximately 175 new cases a year for melanomas inside the eye called uveal melanomas. These cancers spread to other sites of the body in about half of patients. Uveal melanomas are very different to skin melanomas and so far no effective treatment have been approved to treat uveal melanoma once it has spread.

We sequenced uveal melanoma tumours from over 100 different patients to look at what mutations are responsible for tumour growth and development.