Eye cancer can take multiple forms including eye melanoma, squamous cell carcinoma, lymphoma, and retinoblastoma.
Eye melanoma is unusual in that most melanomas develop in the skin and cause skin cancer.
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However, it can also affect the eyeball and will run by a different name depending on which part of this complex area it affects.
An eye melanoma develops when the pigment-producing cells in the eyes divide and multiply quickly, producing a tumour.
Source: Daily Express
