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Intraocular melanoma is an eye cancer inside the eyeball, in which the cancer cells come from the part of the eye called the uvea, which includes the iris (the colored part of the eye).

Dr. Robert Kwok reviewed this

35 year experience in Pediatrics

Is a type of:

Eye cancer

How long it usually lasts:

Chronic (lasts years to lifelong)

How common it is:

Rare

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