Tumours of the eyeball are rare. These tumours can arise in the eyeball or spread to the eyeball from elsewhere. In adults ‘melanoma’ is the commonest tumour that arises in the eyeball and in children it is ‘retinoblastoma’. Tumours also arise form the conjunctiva, eyelids and the orbit.

This link lists most of the useful eye websites on the internet-highly recommended and very comprehensive !

www.webeye.ophth.uiowa.edu/dept/websites/eyeres.htm

Excellent websites for information on a broad range of eye cancers.

www.cancerbackup.org.uk
www.eyecancerinfo.com/
www.eyecancer.com/

These are links for eyeball melanoma diagnosis and treatment:

www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/ intraocularmelanoma/patient
www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/types/melanoma
www.meb.uni-bonn.de/cancer.gov/CDR0000062712.html
www.cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cancernet/201279.html
www.jhu.edu/wctb/coms/index.htm
www.noah-health.org/en/cancer/types/eye.html
www.emedicine.com/OPH/topic404.htm
www.emedicine.com/oph/topic403.htm
www.emedicine.com/oph/topic405.htm

Eyeball Retinoblastoma diagnosis and treatment:

www.rbsociety.org.uk
www.retinoblastoma.net
www.retinoblastoma.ca
www.emedicine.com/oph/topic346.htm

Eyelid tumour diagnosis and treatment:

www.oculoplastics.co.uk
www.visionchannel.net/skincancer
www.plwc.org
www.emedicine.com/OPH/topic236.htm
www.emedicine.com/OPH/topic199.htm
www.emedicine.com/OPH/topic716.htm

Conjunctival tumours:

www.emedicine.com/oph/topic110.htm
www.emedicine.com/oph/topic116.htm

Orbit tumours:

www.emedicine.com/oph/topic758.htm