From:
ferrethealer@aol.com
Date: 2007-07-29 19:52:28 UTC
Subject: Sarcomas Re: [ferrethealth] Digest Number 859
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
In a message dated 07/29/07 7:30:52 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com writes:
It came back as a sarcoma. I
believe sarcomas can happen in cats and ferrets and are caused by a
previous vaccine. Correct me if I am wrong please.
**You are partially correct, but not completely.
Sarcomas can happen in any species, and can be triggered by a number of
things. It is certainly true that among the things that can trigger a sarcoma to
occur, especially in cats, is an inflammatory reaction to a vaccine. But
sarcomas have been found that were triggered by foreign objects such as splinters
and grass awns, and that have no known trigger. I have seen sarcomas in dogs
and in cats that were clearly not possibly related to vaccination, as well as
those that were. The only sarcoma I have treated in a ferret was in a spot
that he had never received a vaccine in (I know as I had done all of his vaccines
and they were nowhere near the site of the tumor).**
Dr. Ruth
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