Re: lymphoma statistics

2006-09-26 Thread Tad Burnett
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

lymphoma statistics

2006-09-26 Thread Lernermichelle
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

Re: lymphoma statistics

2006-09-26 Thread G. Lane
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