>Your results may differ of course. I treated one ferret with prednisone >alone and he survived for 3.5 years with insulinoma and lived to be >almost 7 years. In regard to Mike Janke, I'm sure each individual ferret (wi/insulinoma), will vary with his/her life span. Age may or may not be a factor. I do know of ferrets who were 7 and 8 yrs. old, and living quality lives for another one to two years with pancreatic procedures. Years prior, I had one ferret that didn't make it past 48 hrs. of a partial pancreatectomy procedure, but more recently, another male, sable ferret lived to 10 yrs. old, and was diagnosed with insulinoma at age 6 yrs. I treated him with a potent antioxidant supplement (listed in the physician's PDR, and approved by the FDA), and Pred, instead of any surgical procedure. With this therapy, Bear's symptoms (low blood glucose episodes/seizures) decreased with time, until there were none. I kept him on the antioxidant, and occasional Pred, but that was it. Phyllis [Posted in FML issue 4328]