Extraocular eye cancers include basal cell carcinoma-develops near your eye, especially on the lower eyelid, causes a small red growth on the skin that often has a rolled edge to it and doesn't usually spread to other parts of the body, but it can affect surrounding tissue if it isn't treated; squamous cell carcinoma-develops on the surface of the eyelid; rhabdomyosarcoma-develops in the muscles that move the eye and mostly affects children; optic nerve tumors-rarely, a tumor can develop in your optic nerve which connects your eye to the brain.
Attribution: BUPA
See also:
- Eye cancer
- Intraocular eye cancer
- Secondaries of eye cancer
- Symptoms of eye cancer
- Risk factors for eye cancer