From:
"Sue Liszewski"
Date: 2005-01-21 23:38:18 UTC
Subject: RE: [ferrethealth] malignant adrenal tumor
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <BAY104-F2740D18863474382036BF6DC820@phx.gbl>
Ask your vet if the pathology report said whether the margins were clean or
not. If there is no mention of margins have your vet ask the lab to check
for margins, they should do this at no aditional cost. If there are clean
margins and no surronding lymph nodes were affected then there is a good
chance it was caught in time, if not then ....., you know the answer. Best
of luck to you.
Dr. Sue
>From: "Robin Grimes" <rgrimes1979@mchsi.com>
>Reply-To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
>To: <ferrethealth@smartgroups.com>
>Subject: [ferrethealth] malignant adrenal tumor
>Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 14:44:14 -0600 (Central Standard Time)
>
>I just got back from the vet after taking Kiki in for his following visit
>from last weeks adrenal surgery. The vet got the pathology report back on
>the adrenal glands. When he did the surgery last week, apparently the left
>gland looked fairly normal but the right gland was enlarged. The pathology
>report indicated that the left gland had a malignant tumor, so the right
>gland was probably enlarged to try to make up for the left gland.
>
>My question is how likely is it that the cancer hadn't spread yet? He
>really was in more of the early stages of the disease. Is there a good
>chance that it hadn't spread, and since the vet took all of the left gland
>out, that the cancer is gone too? Or is this something I really can't know
>yet unless he shows other signs?
>
>Robin
>
>
>
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