Personalized treatment planning in eye brachytherapy for ocular melanoma: Dosimetric analysis on ophthalmic structure at risk

Ocular melanomas are the second most common type of melanoma after the cutaneous form and the most common primary ocular malignancies with an incidence of two cases per million in Southern Europe [1]. Ocular melanomas typically appear as dome shaped mounds rising from the sclera shell of the eye. Currently, depending on tumor position and dimension several treatment options exist such as enucleation, charged particle irradiation, stereotactic photon radiotherapy and eye plaque brachytherapy (EPB) [2].
Source: Physica Medica: European Journal of Medical Physics - Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Technical note Source Type: research