5/25/11

what does it mean if a cat is leukemia negative?


what does it mean if a cat is leukemia negative?
i am looking at getting a kitten from a cat that is leukemia negative. what does that mean. the cat was rescued off the streets. any little information would help.

- estimator
you gotta be kidding what part of negative dont you get?

- kouneli
Means that there's no leukemia...which is GOOD.

Strange how in the medical world, negative means good....lmfao.

- Isodora
Well, what does it mean if a pregnancy test is negative? It means you aren't pregnant. So if the leukemia test is negative, than.......he doesn't have it.

- Miles Mack
It'll most likely die within two months. Start looking for a new cat...

- myxavier222
Leukemia neg. is very good news. Don't keep knocking your head against the wall..means it's healthy!

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Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma?


Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma?
That,s my mother pathology report(age 50years), is it cancer? and which stage?and how much my mom have time,is it cure able ?

Non-Hodgkin B-cell lymphoma with morphological and immunohistochemical features of small lymhocytic lymphoma/chronic lymphocytic leukemia

- Ashley
Hodgkin's Lymphoma is a cancer in the Lympnodes of the body. More then likely her doctor will put her through Chemo and radiation.

Lymphoma is allot like leukemia in the way it is treated. The good news is that it is very curable in most patients. There are very little people that die form lymphoma.

I'm very sorry for what you and your mother are going through. I'm going to give you a few links you can go to get more information.

http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/types/non-hodgkin
www.mayoclinic.com/.../non-hodgkins-lymphoma/ds00350

- Spreedog
"Ashley" has given you some good general sites to start, but she has a few mistakes.
Your mom will not be likely to have radiation for this subtype of NHL. "Lymphomas" are not always cured and they do end the lives of some patients. The NCI data in the site Ashley provides indicates some 65,980 cases of the many lymphoma types in the USA each year with ~19,500 deaths.

Here's a site more specific for the type you want to know about.
http://www.lymphomainfo.net/nhl/types/sll.html

And another general site
http://www.merck.com/mmhe/sec14/ch177/ch177c.html

Diffuse non-Hodgkin's lymphoma types by WHO classification:
Small cell (diffuse)
Small cleaved cell (diffuse)
Mixed small and large cell (diffuse)
Large cell (diffuse)
There are many other types of diffuse non-Hodgkin's B cell lymphoma, but the complete list is not what you asked about.
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Your description fits the first one - small cell (B cell) diffuse
These are generally low grade malignancies (cancers) - responsive to simple chemotherapy - but difficult to cure. Impossible to predict time for her - and no doctor should try to make these impossible predictions. She could live for many years with this type of lymphoma and die from something else. Some people die 'with' a malignancy rather than 'from' it.

As for stage - you don't give us the information we need to assess that.
Your mother's oncologist has all of the staging info - extent of disease.
Strongly suggest being with your mother she when goes for her oncology visits. That's far better than asking us here - where we have incomplete information.

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need to chat with family that has leukemia?


need to chat with family that has leukemia?
my nephew was just diagnosed with leukemia (ALL) this a rare childhood cancer that requires 3 years of intense outpatient and inpatient chemotherapy treatment

- rockdjchick
Look into the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. They have great patient services, including financial assistance and counseling. I included the link to their website. Good luck!

- mz smilez
I just read the touching story of a young lady that survived cancer she has it in her blog it may give u hope

http://destin4greatnesss.blogspot.com/

- J.S.
Thankfully I have never had cancer and I have not gone through chemotherapy myself but my 2 year old son E has gone through many rounds of it. As a baby he had a Wilms' Tumour - a childhood kidney cancer and successfully beat his cancer with chemotherapy and a nephrectomy of his left kidney containing the entire baseball-sized tumour. Due to the strong doses of chemo drugs, he developed a secondary AML leukemia (closely related to ALL) in December and he's currently doing very well in his fight. To treat this and its effects he has gone through 3 rounds of induction chemo, 3 rounds of consolidation chemo, starting his 4th right now, and he has had a splenectomy. And right now he's in remission!

I've picked up quite a bit on what really goes on in these hospitals and I've had to make a lot of tough decisions for my son. I know cancer isn't easy even though I've thankfully never had it myself. You're more than welcome to IM me (crazycanuckj) or send me an email (crazycanuckj@yahoo.ca). I hope treatment goes well for your nephew!

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