Silicone oil helps reduce eye damage caused by radiation

Radiation therapy may help treat some malignant tumors in the eye, but can cause blindness if used for a long time.US scientists through experiments discovered, silicon oil can help reduce damage to the eyes caused by radiation therapy caused by radiation therapy.

Silicone oil.Source: Internet

In the report published by Archives of Ophthalmology of the United States, scientists at the University of Colorado (USA) said that traditional radiotherapy will cause damage to the blood vessels and nerves of the eyes, many patients have tumors in Eyes may become blind after three years of receiving radiation therapy.

To inhibit the radiation-induced eye effects of radiation therapy, scientists conducted experiments on donated eyeballs of patients with choroidalmelanoma disease (a form of eye cancer) and dynamics. things also suffer from this disease.

The findings, if applying a layer of silicone oil to the eye surface, can eliminate 55% of harmful radiation to the eye. Until now scientists have not found side effects when using silicone oil protection.

Dr. Scott Oliver, a member of the research team, said the eye protection effect of silicon oil was enough to help prevent eye damage for people with choroidalmelanoma disease treated with radiation therapy.

In the short term, scientists are preparing to conduct clinical experiments on silicon oil protection methods to gradually test their effectiveness.