Finding Your Way with Ocular Melanoma
By Tara McCannel MD PhD
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Welcome to Finding Your Way with Ocular Melanoma with Tara McCannel, MD PhD, a guide to understanding everything there is to know about your experience with this rare cancer. Learn through the lens of my knowledge and clinical experience as a physician expert and passionate patient advocate. The more you know about ocular melanoma, the better you will do, and the better you will live. Let's go!
The content shared on the Finding Your Way with Ocular Melanoma podcast is for informational and educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. The information provided must not be used as a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. As a listener, you are responsible for your own health-related decisions and must consider consulting with a healthcare professional for personalized medical advice.
Tara McCannel MD PhD is a an ocular oncologist, vitreoretinal surgeon and co-founder of Seyhart Wellness. She is also the host of the Mind Body MD podcast where she shares her passion for holistic health and wellness.
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Still Getting Liver Function Blood Testing?
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Aug 27, 2026 |
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How Do I Tell People I Have Ocular Melanoma?
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Aug 07, 2026 |
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Pregnancy and Ocular Melanoma
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Aug 07, 2026 |
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How Is Ocular Melanoma Diagnosed?
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Jul 27, 2026 |
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In-Person Ocular Melanoma Retreat: Immersive Survivorship Experience
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Jul 27, 2026 |
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The Biology of Connection: A Skill For Cancer Survival
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Jun 23, 2026 |
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What Kind of Training Do You Need to Become an Ocular Oncologist?
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Jun 13, 2026 |
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Can My Eye Shrink After Ocular Melanoma Treatment?
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Jun 13, 2026 |
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Can Sun Exposure Re-Activate My Treated Melanoma?
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Jun 13, 2026 |
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The Benefits of Silicone Oil to Protect Healthy Tissue in Plaque Brachytherapy Radiation
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Jun 09, 2026 |
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Webinar: Will I Go Blind? A Clear, Calm Guide For Understanding Your Risks (May 17, 2026)
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Jun 09, 2026 |
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Tumor Response After Radiation: What Exactly Do We Expect to See?
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Jun 09, 2026 |
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How To Deal With a Drooping Eyelid After Ocular Melanoma Treatment
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May 05, 2026 |
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Why "Cutting Out" an Ocular Melanoma is Not a Recommended Treatment Option
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Apr 27, 2026 |
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Plaque Brachytherapy Treatment for Ocular Melanoma
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Apr 24, 2026 |
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Welcome! I'm Tara McCannel, MD PhD - Complete Approach to Healing and Survival
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Apr 22, 2026 |
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Will I Wear Out My Better-Seeing Eye? Breaking the Myth
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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Remembering Dr. Bradley Straatsma, Founder of the Jules Stein Eye Institute (1927-2026)
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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Will I Wear Out My Better-Seeing Eye? Breaking the Myth
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Apr 16, 2026 |
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One-Page Ocular Melanoma "START HERE" Guide
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Apr 13, 2026 |
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When Is The Best Time to Get New Glasses After Eye Surgery?
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Apr 10, 2026 |
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Is It Safe To Have HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy) With Ocular Melanoma?
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Apr 10, 2026 |
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Is There Radiation Still in My Body After Plaque Brachytherapy?
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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Should I Get A Biopsy To Decide Whether To Treat My Eye Melanoma?
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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OPEN HOUSE: How Can I Get Relief From My Worry About Ocular Melanoma?
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Mar 15, 2026 |
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Webinar: Should I Be Worried About My Eye Freckle? Understanding Ocular Nevi and the Risk of Melanoma
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Mar 09, 2026 |
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My 20-Year Journey: Prognostic Biopsy in Uveal Melanoma (ARDS 2006 Lecture)
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Mar 09, 2026 |
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Should I Get a Biopsy of My Choroidal/Ocular Nevus?
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Feb 22, 2026 |
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Eye Injections: What Are the Options and Which Shot Should I Get?
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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Why Doctors Can Mistake an Ocular Melanoma for a Retinal Detachment
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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How Will I Know If My Treated Eye Melanoma Is Recurring?
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Feb 15, 2026 |
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Six Months Out: What Can Help If You're Still Feeling Anxious
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Feb 13, 2026 |
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How Do I Know Which Treatment Is Best For Me?
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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The Uncertainty of Biopsy Results
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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The Mind's Eye, by Oliver Sacks (Persistence of Vision: A Journal)
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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How Do We Know The Radiation Treatment Has Worked?
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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Wrapping Your Head Around Vision Loss
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Visiting the Interventional Radiology Suite: Hepzato Delcath
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Dec 22, 2025 |
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Open House: Is Navigating Ocular Melanoma Group For Me?
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Dec 07, 2025 |
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Live Webinar: The Science of Rest - Evidence for Solitude & Self-Care For Health
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Dec 07, 2025 |
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Vision Loss in Ocular Melanoma
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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Navigating Ocular Melanoma Group Support Program - January 2026
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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Why Your Voice Matters: How Patients (Not Doctors) Move the Needle in Medical Progress
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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Unexpectedly Low Rate of Metastasis & Death Among Patients Treated for Uveal Melanoma with Brachytherapy, Vitrectomy and Silicone Oil
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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How Can Acupuncture Help With Ocular Melanoma?
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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How Do I Treat A Patient With Choroidal Melanoma?
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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Isolation And Ocular Melanoma: Why Support Matters
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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Live Webinar: What To Know About Ocular Melanoma Biopsy
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Jun 29, 2025 |
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Doctor's Visit Survival Guide For Ocular Melanoma
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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Ocular Melanoma Plaque Surgery Explained: Empower Yourself
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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What Stage Is My Ocular Melanoma?
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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Is Ocular Melanoma Related to Skin Melanoma?
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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What If My Treated Ocular Melanoma Is Not Shrinking?
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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Ocular Melanoma Resource: Handbook For Patients And Families
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May 30, 2025 |
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Newly Diagnosed With Ocular Melanoma? Your First 30 Days
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May 27, 2025 |
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Did You Get A Second Opinion?
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May 22, 2025 |
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Getting Through Your Ocular Melanoma Surgery
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May 21, 2025 |
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Retinal Detachment In Ocular Melanoma
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May 16, 2025 |
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Small Melanomas: How To Think About Whether Or Not To Treat
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May 14, 2025 |
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Worrying About Losing Vision In The Melanoma Treated Eye
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May 09, 2025 |
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Does Bleeding in the Eye Increase My Risk of Metastasis? (No!)
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May 07, 2025 |
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Is It Safe To Biopsy An Ocular Melanoma?
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May 01, 2025 |
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Getting Cataract Surgery in the Non-Melanoma Eye
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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How To Speed Up Recovery From Ocular Melanoma Surgery
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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Should Prognostic Biopsy Results Change Your Treatment Plan?
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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What To Do About Red Eye After Ocular Melanoma Treatment
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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Diagnosis Day: Finding Your Strength in The Storm
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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Closing The Gap Between Ocular Oncologists: Introducing OMG (Oncology Mentoring Group)
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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What Have You Learned? Embracing Challenges As Opportunities
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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When Medicine Becomes Mindless: The Cost of Formulaic Care in Ocular Oncology
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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Why So Many Tests? Understanding Imaging Studies in Ocular Melanoma
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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Sneak Preview - Webinar on Role of Mindset in Cancer Survival 2/23/25 10AM PST
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Feb 22, 2025 |
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How to Stay Engaged With Ocular Melanoma After Enucleation
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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How to Prepare for Your Ocular Oncology and All Doctor Visits
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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Inflammatory Pain After Brachytherapy - Signs, Symptoms & Solutions
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Feb 02, 2025 |
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Beyond the OCT: Holistic Approach to Radiation Retinopathy Treatment
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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How to Heal Your Doctor-Patient Relationship
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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My New Book for Patients & Families: Finding Your Way With Ocular Melanoma
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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What To Do About Worsening Vision After Ocular Melanoma Treatment
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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When The Cancer in the Eye is Not Ocular Melanoma
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Dec 24, 2024 |
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Navigating Ocular Melanoma - The Guided Group Program
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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Advancing Survival - A Holistic Approach to Ocular Melanoma
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Dec 15, 2024 |
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Pan-Retinal Laser Photocoagulation After Ocular Melanoma Treatment
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Nov 23, 2024 |
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Webinar: Advancing Survival - A Holistic Approach to Ocular Melanoma
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Nov 16, 2024 |
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Making Decisions From A Place of Fear
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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How to Manage Eye Pain After Ocular Melanoma Treatment
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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White Lights & Flashing After Ocular Melanoma Treatment
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Nov 09, 2024 |
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What Causes Ocular Melanoma?
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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Why Aren't All Ocular Oncologists Offering Prognostic Biopsy?
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Nov 03, 2024 |
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What to Do If You Get Diagnosed With Metastasis
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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McCannel's Ocular Melanoma Resources - All in One Place
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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Managing Anxiety About Metastasis in Ocular Melanoma
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Looking Good After Ocular Melanoma Treatment
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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Does My Doctor's Bedside Manner Matter?
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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Facing the Idea of Ocular Melanoma Metastasis
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Sep 07, 2024 |
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Risk Factors for Metastasis in Ocular Melanoma
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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Vision Improvement Years After Plaque Brachytherapy
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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Intravitreal Injections After Ocular Melanoma Treatment
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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Ocular Melanoma Metastasis - Overview with Bartosz Chmielowski, MD
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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How Do You Prevent Radiation Retinopathy?
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Jun 30, 2024 |
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How Do You Treat Radiation Retinopathy?
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Jun 29, 2024 |
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What is Radiation Retinopathy?
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Jun 29, 2024 |
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Side Effects of Ocular Radiation Treatment
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Jun 23, 2024 |
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Tumor Biopsy - Biopsy Techniques and Safety
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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Tumor Biopsy - Why Get a Biopsy in Ocular Melanoma
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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Double Vision After Ocular Melanoma Surgery
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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Why I Discourage Eye-Patching After Ocular Melanoma Surgery
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May 29, 2024 |
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Living with Decreased Vision After Ocular Melanoma Treatment
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May 26, 2024 |
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Confusion with Brain Scans and Ocular Melanoma
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May 19, 2024 |
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What to Do About the Cataract in my Good Eye?
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May 03, 2024 |
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Getting a Second Opinion
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May 03, 2024 |
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Tumor Recurrence
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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What To Expect When the Plaque is On the Eye
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Mar 30, 2024 |
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What Happens in Plaque Surgery for Ocular Melanoma?
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Mar 30, 2024 |
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Post-Radiation Fatigue
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Mar 30, 2024 |
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All About Enucleation
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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Proton Beam Radiotherapy - An Overview
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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The Radiation Plaque
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Mar 23, 2024 |
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Glaucoma in the Setting of Ocular Melanoma
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Overview of the Eye and Ocular Melanoma Diagnosis
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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Welcome to Finding Your Way With Ocular Melanoma - host Tara McCannel MD PhD
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Mar 14, 2024 |