Symptoms

Symptoms of Eye Cancer

In general, eye cancer is normally painless unless a tumor has grown outside the eye. Some eye cancers, such as intraocular melanoma, often have no symptoms. Your eye doctor may find this type of melanoma during a routine eye exam, or you might notice a change in your vision.

Other types of eye cancers may have different symptoms. These symptoms include:

• Vision problems (blurry vision or sudden vision loss)
• Floaters (spots or squiggles drifting in the field of vision)
• Flashes of light
• Visual field loss (losing part of eyesight)
• Dark spot growing on the iris, the colored part of the eye
• Change in the size or shape of the pupil
• Change in position of the eyeball within its socket
• Change in how the eye moves in the socket
• Bulge in the eye

These symptoms may also be cause by conditions that are not cancer. If you have any of these symptoms, you should see an eye specialist. As in most cancers, early detection and treatment give you a better chance for a cure.