[Felvtalk] Nasal carcinoma :(

Amani Oakley aoakley at oakleylegal.com
Mon Feb 27 12:14:57 CST 2017


The Winstrol doesn’t cost much, at least where my vet sources it. It is maybe $1 a day (2 x 1 mg tablets).

Amani

From: Felvtalk [mailto:felvtalk-bounces at felineleukemia.org] On Behalf Of Katherine K.
Sent: February-27-17 1:13 PM
To: felvtalk at felineleukemia.org
Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Nasal carcinoma :(

Thanks Amani. How much did it cost? He's already on prednisolone daily.

On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 1:11 PM, Amani Oakley <aoakley at oakleylegal.com<mailto:aoakley at oakleylegal.com>> wrote:
Hi Katherine

I had a 16 year old cat who was diagnosed with an aggressive nasal sarcoma. I decided to treat it with radiation, but before that, I figured that with such a poor prognosis, I had little to lose trying other treatments (since none was suggested) and I put her on the Winstrol/Prednisolone combination. I don’t think I had her on the Doxycycline as well, but I may have.

Kaitlin did remarkably well on the pills. When I took her in for an assessment to determine if radiation would help, the head oncology vet (a good friend) told me that if we had succeeded in getting the response he had seen at that point in time, AFTER he had done the radiation, he would have assumed it was the radiation which had caused the improvement and considered the radiation treatment a solid success. There was significant shrinkage of the tumour using the Winstrol/Prednisolone treatment, and the tumour had been putting out vast amounts of very very thick mucous, and that got under control as well. She still underwent the radiation therapy and it may have helped, but honestly, I think the meds helped more. Plus, the tumour was right between her eyes, and when they aimed the instrument, some of the radiation hit one of her eyes, and caused some damage.

She was with me another 2 – 2 ½ years.

Amani

From: Felvtalk [mailto:felvtalk-bounces at felineleukemia.org<mailto:felvtalk-bounces at felineleukemia.org>] On Behalf Of Katherine K.
Sent: February-27-17 11:02 AM
To: felvtalk at felineleukemia.org<mailto:felvtalk at felineleukemia.org>
Subject: [Felvtalk] Nasal carcinoma :(

My sweet, dear 14 yo FeLV boy Krammer was just diagnosed with aggressive nasal carcinoma. For the last 2 months, he has had a chronic nosebleed. It started out small around Christmas, and since then his symptoms have included daily sneezing fits, bloody nasal discharge from one side of his nose, and the recent appearance of a small pink mass in one of his nostrils which we thought was simply a polyp. We biopsied it last week, and the results were not good. His mitotic indexes were high, with 8-10 of them being in the 10 fields.

Needless to say I'm devastated. It's hard to take, even when I've spent the last 3 years half expecting something terrible every time we go to the vet. :'( I'm talking to the vet later today for more information. My guess is we'll opt for palliative care rather than radiation or chemotherapy, due to his age, side effects, the rate of recurrence and my available finances, but if anyone has suggestions, I'm happy to hear them out.

Katherine

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