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Eye cancer can occur in many parts of the eye where a tumor can occur. Because of this there are several types of ocular cancer.

Intraocular melanoma, a rare cancer, is a disease in which cancer (malignant) cells are found in the part of the eye called the uvea.

Patients with eye cancer may exhibit the following symptoms:

• Decreased ability to see
• Floaters (spots or squiggles drifting in the field of vision) or flashes of light
• Visual field loss (losing part of your field of sight so that instead of seeing all around, you only see part of what is around you)
• A growing dark spot on the iris
• A change in position of the eyeball within its socket
• Bulging of the eye
• A change in the way the eye moves within the socket
• White pupils
• Poorly aligned eyes
• Red and painful eye
• Poor vision
• Inflammation of surrounding eye tissue
• An enlarged pupil
• Different colored irises. Between 80% and 90% of women with invasive vaginal cancer have one or more symptoms.

About half the women with invasive vaginal cancer have abnormal vaginal bleeding (often after intercourse). Other signs and symptoms include an abnormal vaginal discharge, a mass that can be felt, or pain during intercourse.

Painful urination, constipation, and continuous pain in the pelvis may occur with advanced vaginal cancer.

A number of benign conditions, such as infections of reproductive organs, can produce similar symptoms, and examinations and tests by your health care professional are the only way to tell if the symptoms are due to a cancer.

If you have any of these symptoms, discuss them with your doctor without delay.

Remember, the sooner you receive a correct diagnosis, the sooner you can start treatment, and the more effective your treatment will be.

Pain is quite rare except in cases of massive spread outside the eye.

The chance of recovery (prognosis) depends on the size and cell type of the cancer, where the cancer is in the eye, and whether the cancer has spread.

If you exhibit any of the above listed symptoms, please see your doctor immediately.