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From: "softbreeze2477"
Date: 2009-11-16 17:41:01 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] can you get Cancer from a ferret?
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com

have been wondering this .. i was my hands alot.
I also do blood test for diabetes and do not use band aids anymore, since the medical people say the prick heals fast.
I do blood test on myself and then ..
sometimes clean up potty..
and or hand feed him when necessary and he licks the food off my finger or eats out of my palm.

[ Moderator's Note:

As far as I know there is only one incredibly rare type of human
malignancy found originally in southern Africa which appears to
itself be contagious. It really hit the news years back
when that was the result from studies since that is
downright weird. I do NOT know if it is still considered to
possibly be contagious.

There are some rare types which appear to have viral triggers
but they are very rare (though not as rare as the type mentioned
above) and seem to be species specific viruses from what I have
read so not ferret and human. In what I have read the
malignancies from those exposures are years later in
ferrets (one form of lymphoma) and up to decades later
in humans.

Malignancies happen when the body's OWN CELLS take on
strange forms, grow too quickly, preferentially pull up nutrients
in some cases, and spread beyond the normal location for
those cells.

There are hundreds of forms of malignancies.

Many things that people loosely call "cancer" in ferrets is NOT.

I think that these will help you greatly so read them completely
and carefully:

http://www.afip.org/consultation/vetpath/ferrets/PDF/neoplasia.pdf

and this set:

<http://listserv.ferretmailinglist.org/SCRIPTS/WA-FERRET.EXE?A2=ind0710&L=FERRET-SEARCH&P=R12655&I=-3&d=No+Match%3BMatch%3BMatches>

<http://listserv.ferretmailinglist.org/SCRIPTS/WA-FERRET.EXE?A2=ind0710&L=FERRET-SEARCH&P=R12730&I=-3&d=No+Match%3BMatch%3BMatches> ]





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