Today's medical mystery

[George K]

[bachophile]

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I cheated and looked. But it’s not realistic today. Ocular melanoma patients should be undergoing frequent and regular liver screening. Mets would be picked up much earlier before jaundice from liver failure set in. So maybe it’s not a fair medical mystery. And the fact that no one notices the prosthetic eye is also not so realistic. In person I think it would be obvious. My two cents. But My disclaimer is that I see ocular melanoma patients a number of times a year.

[George K]

@bachophile I posted that because of your interest in melanoma. My maternal grandmother died of ocular melanoma before I was born.

[bachophile]

@George-K horrible disease. Has a different genetic makeup then cutaneous melanoma.

Metastases from uveal melanoma appear in 8% to 32% of the patients during the first 5 years and in 50% of the patients at 10 years after diagnosis of the primary tumor

And once there are mets (it’s almost always liver) the prognosis is dismal.