From:
Sukie Crandall
Date: 2010-10-16 03:02:13 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] Re: My older male has been very healthy until today....
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
Well, insulinomas are not typically malignancies, and they can often
be treated for a year or more. Remember that a year for a ferret is
about like ten years in the lifespan proportion for a human.
Now, lymphoma in the pancreas is much more aggressive, and carcinoma
in the pancreas is even more aggressive than that (as opposed to in
the adrenal glands where carcinoma is a better diagnosis than
lymphoma). Luckily, those two pancreatic scenarios are rare. See
past posts such as
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/YG13270
and off-FHL expert pathology resources such as
http://www.afip.org/consultation/vetpath/ferrets/PDF/insulinoma.pdf
and
http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/Diseases/Endocrine_And_Hematopoietic.pdf
It is also possible to have blood glucose drop not from a tumor or
tumors in the pancreas itself but from liver problems, or even from an
inability to eat or to process food well enough, so that can't be
forgotten.
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
"All hail the procrastinators for they shall rule the world tomorrow."
(2010, Steve Crandall)
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