![]() I have been both a longtime fan and a longtime friend of Sacks’s-and, what is more, had once, for a period of four years several decades ago, been his impending biographer. But though ocular melanomas metastasize in perhaps 50 percent of cases, given the particulars of my own case, the likelihood was much smaller. The radiation and lasering to remove the tumor ultimately left me blind in that eye. “Nine years ago,” he explained, “it was discovered that I had a rare tumor of the eye, an ocular melanoma. ![]() ![]() This past February 19, fans and friends of Oliver Sacks learned, by way of an article he published in The New York Times, that the great neurologist and medical chronicler had terminal cancer. Oliver Sacks, medical storyteller extraordinaire, in Manhattan on the edge of the Hudson, 1990. ![]()
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