Symptoms of eye cancer
Eye cancer may not cause any signs and symptoms in its early stages. Most people who have eye cancer are diagnosed after an eye exam by an optometrist (the healthcare professional you see for routine eye exams and glasses or contact lenses). Signs and symptoms may only appear as the tumour grows and causes changes in the body such as a change to vision or how your eye looks. Other eye conditions can cause the same signs and symptoms as eye cancer.
Signs and symptoms of eye cancer include:
- a new or growing dark spot on the eyeball, including on the coloured part of the eye (the iris)
- vision problems (for example, you can’t see as much as before or what you see is blurry or doubled)
- floaters (spots, floating objects or squiggly lines) in your vision
- seeing flashes of light or shadows that are not a part of something you’re looking at
- a change in the size or shape of the pupil (the black-looking round opening in the centre of the iris)
- a change in the way the eye sits in the eye socket
- a change in the way the eye moves
- a lump on or around the eye
- bulging of the eye
- eye redness and irritation (conjunctivitis) that doesn’t go away
- pain in the eye
If you experience any new or worsening symptoms of eye cancer, report them to your eye doctor as soon as possible even if you have recently had an eye exam.
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