Coping With Ocular Melanoma (OM) A Toolbox

The basics of what recovery is means having information readily available. At the beginning of the diagnosis, what are the parts of the eye, what is prognostication, what are the treatment options? How does one keep in check all the feelings coming up with a serious diagnosis like cancer of the eye? How does the patient and the family members get themselves back into balance with such a devastating diagnosis?Ziva (Anne) writes about anxiety, scanxiety, fear, and trauma while providing both interventions and resources whether on-line or at the library. Questions are raised, providing room to answer them in each section helps confirm the information needed.She takes the work she formerly did as a licensed psychotherapist and an educator, and provides it to others who are on the same path she is on. She recognizes both as a daughter of a mother with OM as well as herself, what is needed to get on with enjoying life.

Dr. Damato spent more than 20 years leading a longitudinal study in the United Kingdom amongst the Ocular Melanoma patients, there. He brought his expertise as an ocular oncologist to UCSF where he trained other ocular oncologists in the work on ocular melanoma (OM) and its treatment.