Re: [Felvtalk] chemmo for Pupa

2008-10-24 Thread hebert ferrarezzi
Thanks again Dorlis. I'll try to make this contact.Pupa now is going well. 
Results of a blood exam this week indicated a discrete fall in the erythrocyte 
and hemoglobin values, well below the minimum reference parameters (yes, this 
must being familiar for you!). Therefore, we decide to interrupt the chemo 
protocol for a time, at least until such undesirable effects have been 
corrected. I start with lysine and vitamin C today.hebert 

 Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:28:17 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 
 felvtalk@felineleukemia.org CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] 
 chemmo for Pupa  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. 
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Re: [Felvtalk] chemmo for Pupa

2008-10-23 Thread dlgegg
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: 
  felvtalk@felineleukemia.org 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

Re: [Felvtalk] chemmo for Pupa

2008-10-21 Thread Alice hanson
I am replying to this because I can't seem to send email to the organization. 
Someone last week, wrote about giving cats q-10 enzymes. I am wanting to know 
what strength to give a cat. They said it cleared up the gum problems the cat 
had. My Miss Clara has red-line gingivitis and has had to have 8 teeth pulled. 
I am constantly afraid it is going to cause her decline from the leukemia. Does 
anyone remember that email?
thanks,
Alice
  - Original Message - 
  From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.orgmailto:felvtalk@felineleukemia.org 
  Cc: hebert ferrarezzimailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 9:40 PM
  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]mailto:[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 
   
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Re: [Felvtalk] chemmo for Pupa

2008-10-21 Thread Belinda Sauro
   Normally 30mg is the dose given once daily, this is what my vet 
recommended to me.

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Re: [Felvtalk] chemmo for Pupa

2008-10-21 Thread Belinda Sauro
By this comment I was talking about CO-Q 10

 Normally 30mg is the dose given once daily, this is what my vet 
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Re: [Felvtalk] chemmo for Pupa

2008-10-21 Thread Alice hanson
THANK YOU!!! I'm calling my vet today.
Alice
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  Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 9:56 AM
  Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] chemmo for Pupa


  By this comment I was talking about CO-Q 10

   Normally 30mg is the dose given once daily, this is what my vet 
   recommended to me.

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Re: [Felvtalk] chemmo for Pupa

2008-10-21 Thread Saehwa Kang

 I just wanted everyone to know that just b/c your kitty tests positive on the 
ELISA, even twice, at month or more long intervals, it doesn't mean your kitty 
is FeLV positive. I am seeing adoption ads for people who give the ELISA test 
once, and think the kitten has to be adopted out and can't live with them 
anymore. This is not true in every case.

Lola was in this situation, and fought off the disease---probiotics, high 
quality food (Evo), indoor only home, quality interaction and love, plus low 
stress environment (no other cats, except for a few fosters which were kept 
totally separate). My Dad was diligent about trying to provide the best quality 
home he could for her, so she could knock out the disease. She did, and now she 
now has natural immunity to FeLV. Of course, it won't work in every case, but 
it shouldn't stop us from having hope...



 

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To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
Sent: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 7:59 am
Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] chemmo for Pupa










THANK YOU!!! I'm calling my vet today.
Alice
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  From: Belinda Sauromailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.orgmailto:felvtalk@felineleukemia.org 
  Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 9:56 AM
  Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] chemmo for Pupa


  By this comment I was talking about CO-Q 10

   Normally 30mg is the dose given once daily, this is what my vet 
   recommended to me.

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Re: [Felvtalk] chemmo for Pupa

2008-10-21 Thread hebert ferrarezzi
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: 
 felvtalk@felineleukemia.org 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

Re: [Felvtalk] chemmo for Pupa

2008-10-20 Thread Belinda Sauro
  Hi Herbert,
I belong to a feline lymphoma group and almost all of the kitties 
positive or negative that have stayed in remission the longest have 
stayed on chemo anywhere from 1 to 2 years, those being on it longer 
doing better.  What most vets usually do is follow certain protocols 
especially if the cat goes into remission.  You can find more info to 
print out for your vets here:

http://www.felinelymphomacaregivers.org/docs/ChemoProtocols.html

http://www.felinelymphomacaregivers.org/docs/GulfCoastChemoProtocols.html

You may want to join the group it is very informative and supportive:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/feline_lymphoma

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Re: [Felvtalk] chemmo for Pupa

2008-10-20 Thread Belinda Sauro
Hi Herbert,
  Also I forgot to mention most kitties are on the initial protocol for 
anywhere from 6 months to a year, where they get chemo weekly or 
bi-weekly depending on the protocol being used, then they go to a 
maintenance protocol which is usually once every 3 week to once a month.

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Re: [Felvtalk] chemmo for Pupa

2008-10-20 Thread hebert ferrarezzi
Thank you Belinda, 
Thank you Michele,
These informations will be very usefull to guide my decisions. 
I will join to the feline-lymphoma group today.
Pupa is running well.
I'm glad to be here with you.
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Re: [Felvtalk] chemmo for Pupa

2008-10-20 Thread dlgegg
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 
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Re: [Felvtalk] chemmo for Pupa

2008-10-19 Thread mdurante
Hi,

I can only tell you my experience with chemo and lymphoma. You should, of 
course, discuss everything with your vet. 

One of my cats has lymphoma and has been through three rounds of chemo. When 
the side-effects were just too severe I asked them to lower the dosage. I was 
happy with my decision because it did not seem to effect the outcome of the 
treatment and my cat wasn't suffering from awful side-effects.

Good luck!

Michele

-- Original message -- 
From: hebert ferrarezzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

 
 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 
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