From:
sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2005-08-02 21:27:42 UTC
Subject: RE: Adrenal again
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <2897278.1123018062635.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>
Well, it's a higher rate than we have had over a space of 24 years, but I think that we have had a higher rate of lymphoma than your ferret family (including two bouts of the clumping type that has an apparent viral precursor, also, you tend to get longer average lifespans than we do, I believe. We normally have gotten very late in the 6th year to the middle of the 8th year (some older, some younger). Our adrenal disease rate has been about 1/3, and our *combined* rate here of insulinoma and things that behave like it (lympho or carcinoma in the pancreas) has been about 20%. I know of people who have had better numbers and those with worse numbers in pretty much all categories.