Oncology

Race, socioeconomic status impacts uveal melanoma treatment

Patients with uveal melanoma who are nonwhite and of lower socioeconomic status are more likely to be treated with primary enucleation, according to study results in JAMA Ophthalmology. Patients who were socioeconomically disadvantaged had lower 5-year all-cause survival rates but there was no significant difference in disease-specific survival by race...