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Malignant melanoma of the choroid in the eye

Cancer | Last Active: Oct 30 8:36pm | Replies (45)
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@ozgal

This is directed to the moderator mainly, but other members are welcome to give their opinion.

I used to live in the USA and on a trip back to my homeland of Australia I found that i had stage 2 Melanoma tumour. I had been looking at it for 4 years so i was extremely lucky. There was very to non existent media or general medical awareness in Southern California ( the home of the bronzed body) but huge awareness in Australia through medical campaigners etc.

My question is : seeing Australia is the melanoma capital of the world, it would be interesting to have a basic survey of people in the cancer/skin cancer forums to advise A) which Country they are from and B) skin colour type.

thanks for reading.

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Colleen Young, Connect Director | @colleenyoung | Oct 30 9:24am

Welcome, @ozgal, here are some global stats for skin cancer.
- Skin cancer statistics https://www.wcrf.org/cancer-trends/skin-cancer-statistics/
- Global Burden of Cutaneous Melanoma in 2020 and Projections to 2040 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8968696/

Australia has an incredible public health awareness related to skin cancer prevention and early detection. Thank goodness your melanoma was discovered upon your return home.

Ozgal, do you have ocular melanoma or where was the tumour discovered? What treament will you or have you had?

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