Folks apply the word "cancer" far too often. Most adrenal and pancreatic growths are NOT cancers. When the word is used incorrectly people panic and ferret have at times been destroyed because the owner gave up even though the ferret had a very treatable condition. For those who would like to know more there were several past posts on this, with one appearing more than once (second time as a "Golden Oldie"). **** Bill, the FML archive search engine was having trouble -- chugging when I hit "search" but going no further -- when I looked for the locations there, or I'd have included them in this post.**** On the Ferret Health List in Yahoogroups message 6510 is one of those which tackles the topic. For most the information should be very reassuring. [Moderator's note: Yes, the FML search server was having a bit of trouble this weekend due to a misconfigured "spider" that sent it repeated requests without even waiting for an answer. All fixed now. BIG] [Posted in FML issue 3585]