From:
Sukie Crandall
Date: 2003-07-18 23:46:20 UTC
Subject: Re: Biopsy on Fat Pockets
To: okmissgina@sbcglobal.net, ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Cc: williamsb@comcast.net
Message-id: <a06001a03bb3e343d90ff@[10.0.1.24]>
What you report that your vet is saying makes no sense to me.
Mast cell tumors in ferrets aren't like mast cell tumors in dogs. In
dogs they are malignant; in ferrets there is only one malignant one
known and if memory serves that one case was GI.
Also, I think that these are two separate types of tumors. Whereas
from what you say it sounds like your vet is saying that a chordoma
for which that vet has been giving Pred (which still makes no sense
to me) rather than operating has metastasized and sprung up
expressing itself in a mast cell tumor which the vet is treating as a
terminal disease.
Do you have the pathology report from the veterinary pathologist who
studied the biopsy or did the vet not send it out?
Have you looked at the assorted lists of ferret vets to go to one of
those? The lists all differ and at least one should have someone to
help you. It is worth traveling to have someone who knows ferrets
see your's. It is what you NEED to do. That is going to do you and
the ferret a LOT more good than looking at unproven folk approaches
like colloidal silver.
You write:
>Well the vet Vet tells me that the Chordoma on Trixie's tail must
>have traveled up her tail and spread >to her body and has turned
>into mast cell tumor. There is nothing more that can be done
>except >keep her on prednisone until she dies.