From:
"Sukie Crandall"
Date: 2007-03-06 02:10:11 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: Lupron Effects on Insulinoma Ferrets ??
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
--- In ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com, "Jeff" <inner.harmony@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Sukie:
>
> How did you and your vet diagnose that your ferrets had carcinoma or lymphoma of
the pancreas? I have wondered if Neo had one of these, because his insulinoma
progressed so fast and was so aggressive. Obviously we have no way of figuring it out
now, but for future reference, how does one differentiate regular insulinoma from the
other two problems?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeff
> In Memory of Neo
> Welcoming in Trinny, Morphy, and Baby Girl
Fritter's lympho was easy to diagnose . She soon had a node blow up and pathology done
of an aspirate quickly showed definite lympho there.
With Ashling we were planning on insulinoma surgery but as we always do before surgery
we had CBC and Chemistry Panel Blood tests done. (Also had a heart ultrasound, given her
age.) The Chemistry Panel was way off in many ways so we knew then that she had either
lympho or carcinoma. The way we knew what it was was that an ultrasound guided splenic
biopsy was also done. The spleen contained carcinoma cells with pancreatic signature so
we know what it was and that it had spread.
Like so many things it comes down ultimately to having pathology done. Pathology
answers mysteries, it finds enough information that solutions can be found for medical
problems, it prevents surgical risks, it finds causes of unexplained deaths and in so doing
saves others especially other ferrets (and I can actually even think of some human lives
that were saved this way because I recall pathology and toxicology being done on ferrets
found dead in a bedroom closet -- which turned out to have a worsening crack to a
neighboring garage where people were running cars to warm them -- inside which is
downright foolish -- so the person's bedroom was taking in carbon monoxide, and I can
think of a bad well found that way, and I can even think of what turned out to be a gas
leak -- all of which first killed ferrets in the families of members of an assortment of ferret
lists).
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