From:
Steve Austin
Date: 2001-11-10 00:45:00 UTC
Subject: Needs adrenal surgery
Take into consideration the date when the information
was printed, the source of statistics, and
what was done for the one's that didn't have surgery,
meaning Lupron, or other treatment, or none.
The one's that had surgery, what was the pathology
of the adrenal tumor, what side, was there a recurrence
that they died from, or developed other tumors, insulinoma?
The point is that there are so many factors from age of
ferret, to concomitant health problems, to type of
growth removed.
I would say that each ferret's case would be individualized,
and that a lot more ferrets survive much longer after adrenal
surgery than those numbers show, and those are averages,
some ferrets may have lived 3 plus years,and some may have
died right after surgery from complications,etc.
Patty
On Fri, 9 Nov 2001 18:46:23 -0500 "Jim & Laura Ferris"
<jlferris@skyenet.net> writes:
Bob Church has a very well-done article on adrenal disease
and from what we can gather from the article, ferrets that
do not have any treatment live about a year, plus or minus 6
months. And ferrets older than 5 that have surgery will
live about 1 and a half years, plus or minus 6 months. It
doesn't sound very encouraging.