From:
"Ulrike"
Date: 2007-04-07 12:12:20 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] RE: Insulinoma and metastasis- was: Blood Glucose checking question
To: <ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com>
Hi April
The very first ferret I lost, Angel, died of what pathology said was
pancreatic adenocarcinoma. She was only 3 and being my first ferret I
couldn't believe she was dying. Her abdomen ballooned with fluid over 1 1/2
months and she ate less and less and one night it hit me that she was dying.
Took her to the vets to be euthanised and my vet said that her abdomen was
full of white, friable tumours. Some bigger, some smaller. They were
absolutely everywhere except for the chest cavity. I just wondered about
the similarity and that your Bandit also had friable tumours or one friable
tumour.
Ulrike
----- Original Message -----
> My Bandit had insulinoma, and a few years after his diagnosis and
> great progress, he became very ill quickly after his best friend died.
> An ultrasound revealed what appeared to be a possible liver mass, but
> upon exploratory (our last resort due to his poor quality of life at
> that point), he had a malignant islet cell tumor (several samples were
> submitted for pathology) that had invaded not only his liver, but
> basically his entire omentum-it encompassed both kidneys, much of the
> liver, part of the stomach, etc. The prognosis would have been grave
> no matter what, and the tumor was too friable to even resect. We
> elected to put my baby to sleep after surgery due to his poor quality
> of life and poor prognosis. But it did come back as a malignant islet
> cell tumor, FYI...
>
> Best of luck,
>
> April (not a vet-vet tech and ferret owner)
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