Can a person have eye melanoma for 7 years and not know it?

i took a test 7 years ago that showed a block in my vision. i took the same test last week and the resaults were the same. my eye doc was worried it could be melanoma, but after seven years?

You may experience no symptoms at all for melanoma of the eye. On the other hand, eye melanomas may cause light flashes, blurring or a dark spot in your vision.

What to watch for

A change in the color of the iris
A growing dark spot on the iris
A sensation of flashing lights
Poor or blurry vision in one eye
Loss of side (peripheral) vision in the affected eye
Floaters (spots or squiggles drifting in your field of vision)
A red and painful eye

yes I believe so

sometimes a mole (or whatever analogous thing you had in your eye) can turn into a melanoma, but <10% of melanomas grow out of an existing mole.

sounds kind of strange.

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