Treatment for eye cancer

There are things you can do to help you feel more in control of your physical and mental health when preparing for treatment. In the hospital, preparing for treatment is also called prehabilitation or prehab.

A team of health professionals will work together to decide on the best treatment for you.

The main treatments for eye cancer are surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. But you may have other treatments that your eye specialist will discuss with you.

Read about surgery for eye cancer, and what happens before and after.

Radiotherapy uses high energy waves similar to x-rays to kill eye cancer cells.

You usually have chemotherapy to treat lymphoma of the eye. But it might also be used to treat other types of eye cancer.

After your treatment for eye cancer has finished, you usually have follow up appointments to check how you are.