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Ocular Melanoma in the News
Posted by Robert Lee
on July 13, 2012
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Ocular Melanoma Liver Metastasis Pathway
Ocular melanoma is a rare cancer, with an incidence of approximately 7 cases per million population per year. In the UK there are 4 supra-regionally funded …
Quality of Life – Retirement: A Full-Time Job
Yesterday, I learned more about ocular melanoma than I’ve ever known before. This article in the New York Times brought back all those memories and gave …
NY Times Article on Genetic Testing to OM. | Melanoma Research
Some people are starting to talk about “living with” Stage 4 ocular melanoma as a possibility. If tumors are detected early, and treated, maybe one can live long …
CE | 20/20 Magazine
Severed optic nerves, ocular melanoma, detached retinas, pterygia, orbital fractures…these are some of the catastrophic injuries and diseases that occur when …
Ron North releasing his own charity single
Posted by Robert Lee
on January 29, 2012
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Lanark student Ron North producing charity single after cancer fight
AFTER losing one of his eyes to a rare form of cancer, Ron North is aiming to raise funds – by releasing his own charity single.
Music student Ron (26) was diagnosed with ocular melanoma in June 2009.
A series of treatments failed and he eventually had to have his right eye removed in September last year.
But he is now releasing the single, Do These Words, to raise funds for the Teenage Cancer Trust.