i emailed Dr. Maier and got consultation form . you could contact her at www.horizonvetserv.com. maybe she could help you find a vet in Sao Paulo. worth a try. dorlis ---- hebert ferrarezzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am writing to thank you all. This is really an unique and interesting > group. The answers I got for may question about the chemo for Pupa were > fairly beyond my expectative. Aside some valuable technical explanations, I > also heard one, not less technical, from the patient perspective! That is > great! Truly thanks for the attention. > It’s sure that cats and humans can be compared. That’s scientists do all the > time, studding their genes http://lgd.abcc.ncifcrf.gov/ and their virus, > using one as a model to the other (in a dual progress). > Dorlis, I don’t known any holistic veterinary here in São Paulo, but I am > trying to be informed about any alternative therapy to my four positive. In > this way I’m really indebted to this group mailing and archives and to the > felineleukemia page sponsor. hebert > > As a matter of curiosity, I transcribed below, an abstract of a presentation > by O. Jarrett in the 8th International Feline Retrovirus Research Symposium: > Cat Genomics and Infectious Diseases in the 21st Century. Washington, DC; > October, 2006. > http://ifrrs8.ncifcrf.gov/IFRRS8-abstracts.pdf > > HOW FeLV CHANGED THE WORLD > Oswald Jarrett*, University of Glasgow, Institute of Comparative Medicine, > Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Bearsden, Glasgow G61 1QH, Scotland Telephone > +44 141 956 2111 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > FeLV research has had a significant impact on feline welfare, comparative > biology and human retrovirology. Since its discovery, the prevalence of FeLV > has declined dramatically until the infection is now rare in some areas. The > benefits to cat health have been equally striking, as the outcome of > persistent infection is almost always fatal. This success is due to the > application of diagnostic tests to identify and separate infected from > non-infected cats; and vaccination. Because FeLV has evolved in groups of > cats in close contact, but is poorly transmitted in free-ranging cats, these > measures have reduced the incidence of infection in the whole community. > Continuing vigorous application of these measures should eradicate the > infection from even larger populations of cats. Various by-products of FeLV > research that have been valuable in comparative medicine include: the > discovery of several oncogenes, including sis and kit, that are involved in > signal transduction; examples of ways in which genes may collaborate in > leukaemogenesis; and, through the study of FeLV-C, which causes pure red cell > aplasia, the identification of the human haem transporter that is essential > for erythroid differentiation. FeLV research also strongly influenced the > discovery of human retroviruses. As an example of a horizontally transmitted, > naturally occurring virus causing leukaemia, FeLV provided crucial support > for the establishment of the Special Virus Cancer Program. Subsequently, the > search for viruses in T-cell tumours, driven by the knowledge that this is > the predominant form caused by FeLV, led to the discovery of HTLV, and > subsequently HIV. > > > Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:40:09 -0500> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: > > [email protected]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] > > chemmo for Pupa> > Hello, i don't know about cats, but i had perpherial t > > cell lymphoma and had the same chemotherapy you mentioned plus a couple of > > others. none of them did anything but make my hemoglobin drop to 3.4. at > > the end of 2 or 3 years of chemo, stopped treatments, did no good. then a > > year later i went into remission all on my own. now 5 years cancer free. i > > also did vitamins and minerals along with the chemo. oncologist went along > > with me and even said would write prescription if had to go into hospital. > > if my experience can compare, if side effects get too bad, stop treatment. > > not worth the suffering. i would try Dr. Susan Maier, a holistic vet and go > > with vitamin and mineral therapy along with the chemo and then if you drop > > chemo, vitamins will have Pupa in better shape than without. there is > > another holistic vet someone told about. they do phone consultations. check > > with your state veterinarian association for local holistic vets. others > > have mentioned l lysine, vitamin c. other answers will come . dorils> ---- > > hebert ferrarezzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Olá amigos,> > As > > already told, Pupa (8 years old) was tested FeLV+ in January/2008 and > > diagnosed with lymploma (large cell type) at the submandibular lymphnode in > > april. Since then, she has been treated with Staphylococcal Protein A and > > has recovered very well from severe thrombocytopenia and neutropenia. The > > lymphoma had an apparent short time of remission but returned in a > > persistent constant slow growth. > > A chemmo protocol using > > L-asparaginase+Prednisone was initiated and interrupted after 3 weeks since > > no effect was noted. A recent ultrasonographic image exam showed a large > > and encapsulated tumor. Considering that Pupa upholds good red/white BCC, I > > decided to begin a more aggressive chemmo protocol (COP: cyclophosphamide, > > vincristine, predinisone) two weeks ago. > > The response was surprisingly: > > five days after the first COP session, the tumor reduced to an unstructured > > mass, and at the eighth day, when the second vincristine injection was > > done, no sign of it could be founded by touch inspection. The vets were > > astonished such a rapid remission and we are praying so that thus remains > > for a long long time. The third chemmo session is to be tomorrow, after > > checking the results of her new hematological exam.> > My question, I hope > > you could help me by previous experience or knowledge about, is: > > > > > > Should I have to shorten the protocol or at least reduce the drugs dosage > > (in order to avoid the side effects that are beginning to appear)?> > > > > > Any information will be very welcome,> > Many thanksSincerely...> > Hebert > > > > http://www.butantan.gov.br/ecoevo/index_ing.htm > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________> > > > Confira vídeos com notícias do NY Times, gols direto do Lance, > > videocassetadas e muito mais no MSN Video!> > > > http://video.msn.com/?mkt=pt-br> > > > _______________________________________________> > Felvtalk mailing list> > > > [email protected]> > > > http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org> > > > > _______________________________________________> Felvtalk mailing list> > > [email protected]> > > http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org > _________________________________________________________________ > Conheça o Windows Live Spaces, a rede de relacionamentos do Messenger! > http://www.amigosdomessenger.com.br/ > _______________________________________________ > Felvtalk mailing list > [email protected] > http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
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