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What number of people are diagnosed each year with eye cancer?
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1 in 100,000: One in 100, 000 people get eye cancer each year. There are many different type of eye cancer. See this site for more on incidence of this cancer. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/860751.
Answered 12/25/2013
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