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From: afranzese@optonline.net
Date: 2005-04-26 00:28:43 UTC
Subject: starting prednisone for lymphoma
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <4935905.1114475323334.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>

Our 4-year old Ellie has just been diagnosed with malignant lymphoma. She had surgery ~2 weeks ago to remove an adrenal tumor (benign, left side, fully removed, thank goodness) and they took biopsies of the enlarged lymph nodes at the same time. The vet gave us a perscription for prednisone, 0.5ml 2x a day. After reading through some of the archoves on lymphoma and treatment options, I am wondering whether we should start her on the prednisone right away. She has been extremely lethrgic for weeks, until about 2 days ago. She seems to be acting like her old self again. She is very skinny, but I think she might be eating more now. Should we wait until she has symptoms again before starting the drugs?

-Allison