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Hosted by Tara McCannel MD PhD · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 120 episodes
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Welcome to Finding Your Way with Ocular Melanoma with Tara McCannel, MD PhD, a guide to understanding everything there is to know about your experience with this rare cancer. Learn through the lens of my knowledge and clinical experience as a physician expert and passionate patient advocate. The more you know about ocular melanoma, the better you will do, and the better you will live. Let's go!The content shared on the Finding Your Way with Ocular Melanoma podcast is for informational and educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. The information provided must not be used as a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. As a listener, you are responsible for your own health-related decisions and must consider consulting with a healthcare professional for personalized medical advice. Tara McCannel MD PhD is a an ocular oncologist, vitreoretinal surgeon and co-founder of Seyhart Wellness. She is also the host of the Mind Body MD podcast w
Tara McCannel MD PhD hosts Finding Your Way with Ocular Melanoma, a health show with 120 episodes published.
Telling your friends and family that you have a diagnosis of ocular melanoma can be challenging. "Cancer" can trigger strong emotions because we have been taught that having cancer is the worst possible thing. Give yours
Young women of child-bearing age may be affected by ocular melanoma. Although the majority of people who get diagnosed and treated for ocular melanoma are older than 50 years of age, and the majority of patients are men,
It is very common to have a drooping eyelid (called "ptosis") after ocular melanoma surgery. The most common reason is post-operative edema. The second reason is mechanical ptosis from the surgery itself. The time to sta
In your reading about ways to treat an ocular melanoma, you may have come across a technique called "tumor endoresection". This is essentially removing the ocular melanoma from the eye by either an external technique, or
The most common and best way to treat an ocular melanoma where the tumor has not grown past the point of treatment, and where there is still vision in the eye is plaque brachytherapy. We discuss how surgery works, and re
Welcome! For those of you who are new to me and my mission, I want to share a little about my background, experience and my philosophy toward patient care. Welcome back if you are visiting again! Get your copy of the one
Many people worry that relying on a better-seeing eye may wear it out, make it see less well and also make the better-seeing eye more susceptible to disease. This is entirely not the case. Listen to understand how the ey
Among the leaders in medicine, and specifically people who have changed the field of Ophthalmology, Dr. Bradley Straatsma stands out as a legendary giant. The list of his contributions is lengthy. Dr. Straatsma was metic
Many people worry that relying on a better-seeing eye may wear it out, make it see less well and also make the better-seeing eye more susceptible to disease. This is entirely not the case. Listen to understand how the ey
Here is a simple one-page guide to use as a starting point. Wherever you are in your journey - you have a suspicious growth; you've just been diagnosed; you've already been treated; you have been diagnosed with metastasi
You may wish to update your glasses prescription after having eye surgery. This may be the case after cataract surgery, retinal detachment surgery (scleral buckling and/or vitrectomy), plaque brachytherapy surgery, and e
During perimenopause and menopause, estrogen (and sometimes progesterone) decline significantly. Estrogen affects more than just hot flashes. It plays a role in brain function, mood, sleep, bone density, cardiovascular h
Radiation kills ocular melanoma by disrupting and damaging the DNA - the blueprint for allowing the cancer cells to multiply. The source of the radiation in a brachytherapy plaque is either seeds of iodine-125, seeds of
You may find yourself in a tricky situation where your doctors think you MIGHT have an ocular melanoma or it's possible that the lesion may be benign. Usually, when there is something borderline, close observation is wha
Not only is it possible to get relief from worries about Ocular Melanoma, but it is also possible for you to become an expert, to take control over the way ocular melanoma affects you and your life, to be held accountabl
What is a nevus? How did I get it? Can if affect my vision? How likely will the nevus change into a melanoma? How does my doctor know it is benign? Should I have it biopsied or treated? In this webinar, I will also show
I had the honor of being invited to speak at the 54th Aspen Retinal Detachment Society Meeting in Snowmass, Colorado. In my lecture I chronicle the history of prognostic biopsy in vivo. The first prognostic biopsy in Nor
If you have a small ocular lesion that is suspicious, or that makes your eye doctors concerned for cancer, know this - you never have to rush into deciding what to do about it. This is because even small cancers grow slo
In the setting of ocular melanoma, the most common reason you may need an eye injection is to treat radiation retinopathy. The class of drugs that may help with radiation retinopathy is "anti-VEGF therapy" (VEGF = vascul
Have you ever wondered why your eye doctors initially thought you had a retinal detachment when you really had an ocular melanoma? For many people who get diagnosed with ocular melanoma, everything began when an eye doct
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Finding Your Way with Ocular Melanoma is hosted by Tara McCannel MD PhD. The show is categorised under health (fitness) and has published 120 episodes.
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