title: [Choroidal melanoma].
abstract: Choroidal melanoma is the most common form of eye cancer in adults. Treatments enabling the tumour to be destroyed or removed while preserving the eye socket are mainly based on surgery, proton therapy and brachytherapy.
authors.affiliation: Institut Curie, 26 Rue d'Ulm, 75005 Paris, France. Electronic address: laurence.desjardins@curie.fr.
authors.forename: Laurence
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Desjardins
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001918:Brachytherapy; D002830:Choroid Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008545:Melanoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy*; D013508:Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures; D061766:Proton Therapy; D014604:Uveal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D000098943:Uveal Melanoma
keywords: brachytherapy; cancer; choroidal melanoma; curiethérapie; eye; mélanome de la choroïde; proton therapy; protonthérapie; œil