From:
"Tressie"
Date: 2011-08-08 09:34:10 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: Insulinoma...
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
'Cancer' has come to have many meanings in the vernacular and is a catch-all term that can create confusion. One will find it used to mean just about any abnormal growth. I spent a year in graduate school studying and researching what the term 'cancer' means within the culture.
So you are both correct in that, whatever meaning you have given to the term 'cancer'- it holds true for you.
In the field of oncology the various diseases we come to think of as a cancer are referred to specifically by the type of 'cancer' it is.
Technically insulinoma is the tumor/s that results from the uncontrolled
growth of the insulin-secreting cells of the endocrine pancreas.
Vets will often refer to removing insulinomas from the pancreas. Therefore, stating that a ferret has an insulinoma or has insulinomas would be semantically more accurate. However, we use the term to refer to the cluster of symptoms and the disease process that results from an insulinoma, and that is now what the term has come to mean within the ferret community.
Tressie
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