Uveal melanoma of the eye has declined in Australia since the 90s

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Australia; WA

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Uveal melanoma, or melanoma of the eye affecting the iris and surrounding area, has declined in Australia since the 1990s, although it's unclear why, according to Aussie researchers. They looked at medical records between 1982 and 2015, and found there were 4,617 cases of uveal melanoma during the period. Incidence increased between 1982 and 1993, they say, followed by a decrease between 1993 and 2014. Survival, however, did not change during the period despite improvements in treatment, and patients in Western Australia and Tasmania were the least likely to survive the disease, the researchers say.

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conference: British Journal of Ophthalmology

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Organisation/s: Edith Cowan University, The University of Western Australia

Funder: ABB is supported by an ECU Post Graduate Scholarship and a Cancer Council of Western Australia PhD Top-up Scholarship (no award number). FKC is supported by the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council Career Development Fellowship (MRF1142962). ESG is supported by a fellowship from the Cancer Council of Western Australia (no award number).

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