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Finding Your Way with Ocular Melanoma — 109 episodes

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How To Deal With a Drooping Eyelid After Ocular Melanoma Treatment

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Why "Cutting Out" an Ocular Melanoma is Not a Recommended Treatment Option

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Plaque Brachytherapy Treatment for Ocular Melanoma

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Welcome! I'm Tara McCannel, MD PhD - Complete Approach to Healing and Survival

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Will I Wear Out My Better-Seeing Eye? Breaking the Myth

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Remembering Dr. Bradley Straatsma, Founder of the Jules Stein Eye Institute (1927-2026)

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Will I Wear Out My Better-Seeing Eye? Breaking the Myth

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One-Page Ocular Melanoma "START HERE" Guide

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When Is The Best Time to Get New Glasses After Eye Surgery?

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Is It Safe To Have HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy) With Ocular Melanoma?

11

Is There Radiation Still in My Body After Plaque Brachytherapy?

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Should I Get A Biopsy To Decide Whether To Treat My Eye Melanoma?

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OPEN HOUSE: How Can I Get Relief From My Worry About Ocular Melanoma?

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Webinar: Should I Be Worried About My Eye Freckle? Understanding Ocular Nevi and the Risk of Melanoma

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My 20-Year Journey: Prognostic Biopsy in Uveal Melanoma (ARDS 2006 Lecture)

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Should I Get a Biopsy of My Choroidal/Ocular Nevus?

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Eye Injections: What Are the Options and Which Shot Should I Get?

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Why Doctors Can Mistake an Ocular Melanoma for a Retinal Detachment

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How Will I Know If My Treated Eye Melanoma Is Recurring?

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Six Months Out: What Can Help If You're Still Feeling Anxious

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How Do I Know Which Treatment Is Best For Me?

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The Uncertainty of Biopsy Results

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The Mind's Eye, by Oliver Sacks (Persistence of Vision: A Journal)

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How Do We Know The Radiation Treatment Has Worked?

25

Wrapping Your Head Around Vision Loss

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Visiting the Interventional Radiology Suite: Hepzato Delcath

27

Open House: Is Navigating Ocular Melanoma Group For Me?

28

Live Webinar: The Science of Rest - Evidence for Solitude & Self-Care For Health

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Vision Loss in Ocular Melanoma

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Navigating Ocular Melanoma Group Support Program - January 2026

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Why Your Voice Matters: How Patients (Not Doctors) Move the Needle in Medical Progress

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Unexpectedly Low Rate of Metastasis & Death Among Patients Treated for Uveal Melanoma with Brachytherapy, Vitrectomy and Silicone Oil

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How Can Acupuncture Help With Ocular Melanoma?

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How Do I Treat A Patient With Choroidal Melanoma?

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Isolation And Ocular Melanoma: Why Support Matters

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Live Webinar: What To Know About Ocular Melanoma Biopsy

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Doctor's Visit Survival Guide For Ocular Melanoma

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Ocular Melanoma Plaque Surgery Explained: Empower Yourself

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What Stage Is My Ocular Melanoma?

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Is Ocular Melanoma Related to Skin Melanoma?

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What If My Treated Ocular Melanoma Is Not Shrinking?

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Ocular Melanoma Resource: Handbook For Patients And Families

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Newly Diagnosed With Ocular Melanoma? Your First 30 Days

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Did You Get A Second Opinion?

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Getting Through Your Ocular Melanoma Surgery

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Retinal Detachment In Ocular Melanoma

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Small Melanomas: How To Think About Whether Or Not To Treat

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Worrying About Losing Vision In The Melanoma Treated Eye

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Does Bleeding in the Eye Increase My Risk of Metastasis? (No!)

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Is It Safe To Biopsy An Ocular Melanoma?

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Getting Cataract Surgery in the Non-Melanoma Eye

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How To Speed Up Recovery From Ocular Melanoma Surgery

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Should Prognostic Biopsy Results Change Your Treatment Plan?

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What To Do About Red Eye After Ocular Melanoma Treatment

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Diagnosis Day: Finding Your Strength in The Storm

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Closing The Gap Between Ocular Oncologists: Introducing OMG (Oncology Mentoring Group)

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What Have You Learned? Embracing Challenges As Opportunities

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When Medicine Becomes Mindless: The Cost of Formulaic Care in Ocular Oncology

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Why So Many Tests? Understanding Imaging Studies in Ocular Melanoma

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Sneak Preview - Webinar on Role of Mindset in Cancer Survival 2/23/25 10AM PST

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How to Stay Engaged With Ocular Melanoma After Enucleation

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How to Prepare for Your Ocular Oncology and All Doctor Visits

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Inflammatory Pain After Brachytherapy - Signs, Symptoms & Solutions

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Beyond the OCT: Holistic Approach to Radiation Retinopathy Treatment

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How to Heal Your Doctor-Patient Relationship

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My New Book for Patients & Families: Finding Your Way With Ocular Melanoma

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What To Do About Worsening Vision After Ocular Melanoma Treatment

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When The Cancer in the Eye is Not Ocular Melanoma

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Navigating Ocular Melanoma - The Guided Group Program

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Advancing Survival - A Holistic Approach to Ocular Melanoma

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Pan-Retinal Laser Photocoagulation After Ocular Melanoma Treatment

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Webinar: Advancing Survival - A Holistic Approach to Ocular Melanoma

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Making Decisions From A Place of Fear

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How to Manage Eye Pain After Ocular Melanoma Treatment

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White Lights & Flashing After Ocular Melanoma Treatment

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What Causes Ocular Melanoma?

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Why Aren't All Ocular Oncologists Offering Prognostic Biopsy?

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What to Do If You Get Diagnosed With Metastasis

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McCannel's Ocular Melanoma Resources - All in One Place

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Managing Anxiety About Metastasis in Ocular Melanoma

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Looking Good After Ocular Melanoma Treatment

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Does My Doctor's Bedside Manner Matter?

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Facing the Idea of Ocular Melanoma Metastasis

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Risk Factors for Metastasis in Ocular Melanoma

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Vision Improvement Years After Plaque Brachytherapy

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Intravitreal Injections After Ocular Melanoma Treatment

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Ocular Melanoma Metastasis - Overview with Bartosz Chmielowski, MD

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How Do You Prevent Radiation Retinopathy?

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How Do You Treat Radiation Retinopathy?

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What is Radiation Retinopathy?

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Side Effects of Ocular Radiation Treatment

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Tumor Biopsy - Biopsy Techniques and Safety

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Tumor Biopsy - Why Get a Biopsy in Ocular Melanoma

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Double Vision After Ocular Melanoma Surgery

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Why I Discourage Eye-Patching After Ocular Melanoma Surgery

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Living with Decreased Vision After Ocular Melanoma Treatment

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Confusion with Brain Scans and Ocular Melanoma

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What to Do About the Cataract in my Good Eye?

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Getting a Second Opinion

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Tumor Recurrence

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What To Expect When the Plaque is On the Eye

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What Happens in Plaque Surgery for Ocular Melanoma?

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Post-Radiation Fatigue

104

All About Enucleation

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Proton Beam Radiotherapy - An Overview

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The Radiation Plaque

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Glaucoma in the Setting of Ocular Melanoma

108

Overview of the Eye and Ocular Melanoma Diagnosis

109

Welcome to Finding Your Way With Ocular Melanoma - host Tara McCannel MD PhD