PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | uveal melanoma |
| Phenotype | C0025202|melanoma |
| Sentences | 5 |
| PubMedID- 25874144 | In the collaborative ocular melanoma study (coms) of primary uveal melanoma only 3 (<1%) of 739 patients with uveal melanoma had metastasis to the contralateral eye or orbit [19]. |
| PubMedID- 23825798 | However, to our knowledge, this is one of the largest studies to date looking specifically at germ-line mutations in familial melanoma pedigrees with uveal melanoma and/or blue nevi. |
| PubMedID- 23772126 | Ciliary body melanoma represents 6–15% of uveal melanoma. |
| PubMedID- 24653816 | This concept is supported by recent studies that have shown circulating melanoma cells in patients with uveal melanoma independent of tumor size, type of treatment, or length of follow-up.10 therefore, circulating melanoma cells are thought to colonize in distant organs, form micrometastases, and remain dormant while sporadically seeding tumor cells into the circulating blood. |
| PubMedID- 25904122 | The prevalence of cutaneous melanoma was increased in patients with uveal melanoma, but the lifetime prevalence of other primary cancers was not appreciably increased. |
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