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sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2005-03-26 23:55:04 UTC
Subject: RE: [ferrethealth] RE: Insulinoma
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <4798850.1111881304201.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>
It can get confusing, can't it, that a discussion which was originally on insulinoma has switched to being about a different growth category: adrenal growths.
There are some other species for whom melatonin has reduced growths, but for ferrets the best seen was in a U. of Wisc. study shere some growths (NOT all) were stabilized by melatonin.
In studies Lupron or Suprelorin (two different drugs) resulted in some growths did reduce in some studies, but again NOT all.
It is conjectured that the safest types of growths may also be the most responsive to these meds, which again gets across that the only way to avoid loss of life in those situations is to do surgery.
It always scares me when people do nothing for these growths as if they were untreatable. Granted, surgery is preferrable, but there are the medication options when it isn't possible or when a vet is intimidated by a right side growth. (Hopefully, in that situation at least debulking can be done.) In such situations it makes sense to use both Lupron (or Suprelorin) and melatonin to give both more quality and quantity of life because they can give both.