As the executive leadership of the Collaborative Ocular Oncology Group (COOG), which has conducted the largest prospective clinical studies ever performed in patients with uveal melanoma, we read with concern the recent report by Rivas, Samlowski and McCannel, which claims that brachytherapy combined with vitrectomy and silicone oil injection results in an “unexpectedly low rate” of metastasis and death in patients with uveal melanoma ...
Correa et al. (Fri,) studied this question.