Dear Deborah:
 
>I have this case of ferret's disease, Squamous cell carcinoma, that I
>am not too knowledgeable about as of yet.... I was not able to get too
>much informations out of it except for Dr. William's website.  I would
>appreciate so much if anyone that has/had experienced this terrible
>disease, would give me ideas, tips, new methods, new surgeries out there
>maybe, just anything that anyone knows and I would take all of them.
 
For anyone who would like to know more about squamous cell carcinoma,
there is information on my site (and some pictures) at
http://www.afip.org/ferrets/SCC/SCC.html
 
Deborah - your best bet, if you want to go this way, is to contact a
referral clinic with a good surgeon specialist and talk about removing
part of the upper jaw and the part of the roof of the mouth.  This neoplasm
is fairly slow to metastasize, so there is a chance that radical surgery
may be able to remove all of the tumor.  However, the post-operative period
would be stressful on a 6-7 year old ferret.
 
With kindest regards,
Bruce Williams, DVM
[Posted in FML issue 3259]