From:
sukiec@optonline.com
Date: 2003-01-07 19:42:15 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] re: European bloodlines
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <14433436.1041968535639.JavaMail.root@scandium>
I accidentlly hit "send" too early.
I am also wondering if any of the vets here have, are, or will be keeping hard numbers on this. I realize that they can't compare numbers to the populaiton at large becuase no one knows those numbers, but maybe some can compare them to to their own patient numbers to see they are running into different rates if their ferret patient numbers are large enough, or combine them with those of some additional vets to get a big enough sample size.
Certainly, there are some folks out there who have found in their experience that they run into fewer adrenal growths with later alters which is encouraging but how consistent that is remains in question, and what timeframe may matter remains in question.
Maybe the person who suggested that the low mentions of adrenal neoplasias in the early alters of years ago may have related to just a difference of a few weeks at altering may be on to something, but at this point there are just so many possibilties and they all lack hard numbers to back any of the hypotheses up, so I keep hoping for some numerical data on this, that, and the other thing...