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EYE CANCER
Eye cancers are a quite serious disease, it will causes people blind. The scientific name of eye cancer is eye neoplasm. Eye cancer are generally causes by the abnormal growth of the cells. It got different kind of causes.

For example : Color of eyes - (blue, grey or green) are possible of having melanoma. Melanoma is considered to be the main cause of eye cancer. People that have abnormal brown spot on their uvea might have melenoma. Large number of moles - Its dangerous to have large number of moles in our body, it might cause skin cancer or eye cancer. Eye cancers cannot be transmitted, because most of the people are born to have eye cancer or caused by those possible facts. The symptoms of eye cancer are blurred vision, floaters , change in iris color of dark spot on iris , red or painful eye and lost of peripheral vision. The treatment of eye cancer is depends on the size and location of the tumor, whether the cancer has spread , and the patients overall health. The main treatment is to redue the risk of the tumor spreading and to maintain the health and vision of the patient’s eye. If it doesn’t help much the you can have a surgery, which is iredectomy (remove the part of the iris) , irdocyclectomy (removal of parts of the iris and cilliary body), enucleation (removal of the eye)and scerouvectomy (remove the chorical tumal while keeping the eye).

References : http://www.cancer.org/Cancer/EyeCancer/DetailedGuide/eye-cancer-what-is-eye-cancer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_neoplasm http://www.eyecancer.com/ http://www.cancer.net/patient/Cancer+Types/Eye+Cancer