Four of my FELV kitties have died in the last 4 years. Three were
2.5-3 yrs old. Of the FELV kitties I've lost, 3 have been to
mediastinal lymphoma. One I'm not sure but think he had it in his
intestines (he had chronic diarrhea). He was FIV/FELV.
Gloria
At 09:20 AM 9/26/2006, you wrote:
Statistics show that positives are 600 times more likely to get
lymphoma than negatives. I have lost 3 and possibly 4 positives to
it; to my knowledge I have not lost a positive to anything else,
though Buddy was never definitively diagnosed (but the other 3
were). I think that most people who have positives lose their cats
to lymphoma without knowing that is what it is-- they just know they
are having trouble breathing (mediastinal), diarrhea or blockage
(intestinal), anemia (bone marrow), etc. A lot of people on our
list have lost cats to lymphoma and know it, but were not on the
yahoo lymphoma list, and a lot have not had real diagnoses when
their cats died or were pts. A lot of vets do not think it worth
getting a diagnosis on a positive when things are bad and attribute
it to the FeLV (which it is attribiutable to, indirectly).
Michelle
In a message dated 9/25/2006 11:35:25 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm not sure I agree with this anymore, out of all the cats on the
lymphoma list I'm on only 2 or 3 are +, it is one of the more common
cancers positives get but I don't think it is any less likely for a
positive to get it than a negative any more. Any many of the ones that
do have it have had IBD for a long time.
It's not characteristic FeLV, just characteristic of intestinal problems
like IBD and intestinal lymphoma (though lymphoma affects positives much
more than negatives).
