Small uveal melanomas ‘not always harmless’, ground breaking study finds

Source: EurekAlert!, May 2021

A new article from Liverpool ocular researchers demonstrates that small uveal (intraocular) melanomas are not always harmless, as the current paradigm suggests.

Instead, a reasonable proportion of them have molecular genetic alterations, which categorises them as highly metastatic tumours.

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