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• Aim: to reduce the incidence of cataract

• Caution: inadvertent tumor under dosing

• Some reports attributed local relapses to inadvertent partial shielding

of tumor

(Uno et al. 2003; Fung et al. 2003)

• Other reports suggest that the careful use doesn’t lead to treatment

failure

(Le et al. 2002; Martinet et al. 2003; Son et al. 2010; Tran et al. 2013)

• ILROG guidelines: lens shielding may be used for disease limited to

conjuctiva/eyelid, if appropriate and only if disease will not be

shielded

Lens shielding