Study Status: Active, not recruiting
Recruit Status: Unknown status
Study Type: Interventional
Official Title:
Brief Summary:
To evaluate therapeutic interventions for patients who have choroidal melanoma, the most common primary eye cancer affecting adults, and to assess the potential life-preserving as well as sight-preserving role of radiation therapy.
To determine which of two standard treatments, removal of the eye or brachytherapy, is more likely to prolong survival of eligible patients with medium-sized choroidal melanoma.
To determine whether preoperative radiation prolongs life for patients whose eyes with large choroidal melanoma are enucleated.