Source: Anschutz Medical Campus, May 2025
Ocular oncologists discover new diagnostic tool that may lead to better outcomes for patients with eye cancer.
The eye cancer known as uveal melanoma can be deadly when it spreads to organs like the liver, but historically there was no reliable way to know which uveal melanomas would become metastatic and which would remain local to the eye.
“In uveal melanoma, about a third of patients die of their disease, and you can’t tell by looking at it,” says Scott Oliver, MD, associate professor in the University of Colorado Department of Ophthalmology. “Being able to make that prediction with high accuracy has been an unmet need.”