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Ocular/uveal melanoma

LOSING MY EYE AND GAINING A FAKE ONE: Art Meets Science in the Making of a Prosthetic Eye (plus FAQ)

By Jo Maeder | December 18, 2025 | 0

I’d never heard of ocular/uveal melanoma before I was told I had it. Odds: six in a million. My vision in my right eye had become blurry. I thought it was my cataract progressing. Surprise. Had my ophthalmologist been using early detection retinal imaging, it would have been caught sooner, the tumor small enough to…

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