Table 1.

Availability of Photograph Gradings and Reasons for No Photograph Grading by Year of Follow-up for 650 Patients in the Collaborative Ocular Melanoma Study (COMS), Randomized to and Treated by Iodine-125 Brachytherapy

Reason	Baseline	2 Years	5 Years	8 Years
Photos were taken and gradable for at least some features	648 (99.7%)	493 (75.8%)	318 (48.9%)	162 (24.9%)
Patient not eligible for photos*	0 (0%)	0 (0%)	0 (0%)	136 (20.9%)
Patient had died	0 (0%)	24 (3.7%)	116 (17.8%)	136 (20.9%)
Eye enucleated	0 (0%)	30 (4.6%)	60 (9.2%)	51 (7.8%)
Patient missed clinic examination	0 (0%)	51 (7.8%)	65 (10.0%)	98 (15.1%)
Patient had clinic examination, but photos were not taken	0 (0%)	29 (4.5%)	65 (10.0%)	50 (7.7%)
Photos were taken but not gradable for any feature	2 (0.3%)	23 (3.5%)	26 (4.0%)	17 (2.6%)
Total	650	650	650	650

^*Patient had not reached the follow-up time in question by the time of close of clinical follow-up in the COMS.