The national comprehensive cancer network distress thermometer as a screening tool for the evaluation of quality of life in uveal melanoma patients.

The NCCN distress thermometer could be integrated well into our clinical routine and proved to be a rapid, yet sensible screening tool for emotional and physical distress in patients with uveal melanoma. Special attention should be paid to patients with higher T-category and patients resulting in lower levels of BCVA. As in patients with different tumour entities, the established distress threshold of ≥5 proposing intervention proved to be adequate for uveal melanoma patients.