Message Number: FHL11032 | New FHL Archives Search
From: Sukie Crandall
Date: 2010-02-27 23:40:56 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Morney
To: fhl <ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com>

Morney appears to possibly have adrenally based lymphoma and abdominal
lymphoma.

What she is dealing with is very aggressive given the rate of growth
and symptom changes.

See:
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/message/12581
for some details.

Some questions I have sent to our vets, and comments from others with
knowledge on this score -- melatonin and aggressive lymphoma -- are
welcome:

Might it make sense to try it?

Some ferrets with insulinoma have trouble with it though most don't,
so if it could be safe enough I'd like to try a bit of oral melatonin
at dusk and see if she does okay with that. If she does then an
implant may help her fight whatever is growing in her.

I will have to pull out the Saunders vet med dictionary for this:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19723074

but sadly:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18339126
says that lymphoma is a form of malignancy where melatonin is "self-
defeating"

Here is success in combination with many other meds in a low grade
variant of a human form of lymphoma but Morney's illness is changing
rapidly:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17303979

and this is also good but if I recall right B-cell is a slow form:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16207299


Sukie (not a vet)

Recommended ferret health links:
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/
http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html
http://www.miamiferret.org/
http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/
http://www.ferretcongress.org/
http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml
http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html
all ferret topics:
http://listserv.ferretmailinglist.org/archives/ferret-search.html
HAPPY: http://www.6footsix.com/my_weblog/2010/01/high-fives-for-happiness.html
"All hail the procrastinators for they shall rule the world tomorrow."
(2010, Steve Crandall)


Sukie (not a vet)

Recommended ferret health links:
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/
http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html
http://www.miamiferret.org/
http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/
http://www.ferretcongress.org/
http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml
http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html
all ferret topics:
http://listserv.ferretmailinglist.org/archives/ferret-search.html
HAPPY: http://www.6footsix.com/my_weblog/2010/01/high-fives-for-happiness.html
"All hail the procrastinators for they shall rule the world tomorrow."
(2010, Steve Crandall)







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