The View From My Window: A Personal Account From an Eye Cancer Survivor

"If you have what I think you have, you may only have six months to live," he said with a serious look on his face.

I was in shock. What was he was saying? I felt fine and could not imagine for a moment I could die within six months. The doctor said he was quite certain I had iris melanoma, an extremely rare, highly lethal form of eye cancer that grows around the iris. Once it has grown all the way around the iris, it quickly spreads to the liver and throughout the body. My best chance for ...