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Eye Cancer
Eye cancer
The eyes aren’t immune against cancer. Squamous cell carcinoma and basal cell cancer
often develop on the sun-
A malignant melanoma can start its destructive live on about every part of the eye. It can even hide behind the skin of the retina. Sunlight is again a prominent risk factor, especially overexposure to it in early life. It comes as no surprise that populations in countries with high UV radiation levels have most victims.
Non-
Sunlight helps to grow many useful things in nature but sun also has to take the blame for some rather useless growth on your eyeballs. When someone tries to convince you again that everything in life has its purpose, point to either corner of your eye and ask the smart person, ‘What purpose has this fatty, fleshy growth then?'
Pterygium and pinguecula are the names for common but harmless yellow-
Because UV radiation is a major factor, the disorder occurs mostly in populations
of ‘sun-