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07/02/2021

CANCER AND THE EYES (PART TWO)

The following factors can raise a person’s risk of developing eye cancer:

1. Age. People over age 50 are most likely to be diagnosed with eye cancer. But can happen in any age (though rare in people over 70)

2. Race: it is more common in white people and less common in black people.

3. Gender: It affects men and women.

4. Individual history: People with a pigmentation of the eye or skin around the eye and Nevi, or spots like moles in the eye

5. Family history: it can run in families, although it is rare.

6. Eye color: people with light eye colors are at more risk

7. Other factors. Some studies have suggested that exposure to sunlight or certain chemicals may be a risk factor .

People with a combination of these risk factors may benefit from seeing an optometrist or an ophthalmologist for a yearly examination and protecting their eyes from ultraviolet (UV) radiation special protective glasses.

People with eye cancers often have no symptoms. Many times, an eye doctor finds the tumor during a regular eye examination. The most common symptom is painless loss of vision.

People with eye cancer may experience the following symptoms or signs. Sometimes people with eye cancer do not show any of these symptoms. Or, these symptoms may be caused by a medical condition that is not cancer.
1. Blurred vision
2. Losing part or all of the field of vision
3. Seeing flashes of light
4. Seeing spots, squiggly lines, or floating objects (floaters)
5. Having a dark spot on the iris.
6. Bulging of one eye
7. A lump on the eyelid or in the eye that's increasing in size
8. Pain in or around the eye

07/02/2021

CANCER AND THE EYES (PART ONE)

Cancer is a disease in which abnormal cells divide uncontrollably and destroy body tissue.

Eye cancer is a general term used to describe many types of tumors that can start in various parts of the eye. It occurs when healthy cells in or around the eye change and grow uncontrollably, forming a mass called a tumor.
A tumor can be benign or cancerous. A benign tumor means the tumor can grow but will not spread. A cancerous tumor is malignant, meaning it can grow and spread to other parts of the body.

The eye has 3 major parts:

1. the eyeball
2. the orbit (the tissues surrounding the eyeball)
3. the adnexa (such as the eyelids and tear glands).

Different types of cancer start in each of these areas.

Ocular melanoma, an adult eye cancer – and retinoblastoma, a childhood cancer of the eye, can do more than blind you: They can kill you.

These cancers are rare, but are just as serious and potentially as lethal as any cancer that is more widely known.

18/01/2021

Many schools will resume today.
This may not be a good news for some students.
There are so many reasons people don't find school interesting.
It could be because they don't see the board clearly; they find it difficult or stressful to read close things; headaches, eye pains and water running down their when they try to read for a period of time, it could also be due to the discomfort they have when changing focus from a far object to a close one.
Trust me, if have at least one of these, you would find school activities to be stressful too.
Good news is, there's a solution.
You can enjoy daily activities again.
Visit the appropriate quarters, get tested, get treated.