[Felvtalk] chemmo for Pupa

[dlgegg at windstream.net]

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 <hferrarezzi at hotmail.com> 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 oswaldjarrett at aol.com 
> 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: dlgegg at windstream.net> To: felvtalk at felineleukemia.org> CC: hferrarezzi at hotmail.com> 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 <hferrarezzi at hotmail.com> 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> > Felvtalk at felineleukemia.org> > http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org> > > _______________________________________________> Felvtalk mailing list> Felvtalk at felineleukemia.org> http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
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