Enucleation is removal of the eye.
It is a form of treatment which allows your eye-cancer specialist to remove your tumor from your body. Unfortunately, patients also lose the vision from that eye. With time, almost all patients are able to do all the things they used to do before losing their eye. Within months to years, many patients who are treated with radiation for large ocular melanomas lose vision, develop glaucoma, or have their eye removed anyway. The eye is surrounded by bones, therefore it is much easier to tolerate removal of an eye as compared to loss of a lung or kidney.