Hi all, One of our four ferrets has just been diagnosed with some sort of tumoral growth in his abdomen. Originally, he went in for an ultrasound of the heart, since it seemed enlarged on RX, and also an ultrasound of the abdomen, more specifically the liver. The reason for this was that his bile acids were elevated (112), liver enzymes were ok though, but we wanted to make sure... His heart turned out to be perfect on the ultrasound, his liver too, but there was a large "mass" to be seen in his abdomen... Close to the bowels and the spleen, but not seemingly attached to any organs. We were all thinking of lymphoma first, a needle-aspirate was done though, and there were little or no lymphocytes, and lots of neutrophils. Lymphoma wasn't excluded yet, but with the neutrophils, we all hoped for an abcess of some kind. He received Baytril 10%, 2x 0,1 ml per day, during one week. Than again an ultrasound, which showed the mass, not smaller at all... (this was yesterday) Today he had surgery in order to -so we hoped- remove the mass and send it to the pathologist. But it was impossible to remove it: it turned out to be a tumoral growth on the mesenterium, there was a large blood vessel going through it, and pretty close to the intestine too, plus, if it was to be removed, there was a too big risk that the vascularisation of his intestine would be disrupted too much... It looked rather malignant according to the vet who did the surgery, but only the pathologist will be able to say this for sure. It'll probably take a week or two though before we have the results... I would like to know though if there is anything I can do for him in the mean time? Maybe some sort of holistic treatment? I don't expect miracles, but maybe there are things that can give him some support or slow the tumoral growth? I did a quick search already and came across "pycnogenol"? Could this harm him, or would it be safe to try it, even now, when we don't know yet which kind of tumor it is? If so, in what dosage? All suggestions, of any kind, are more than welcome! Thank you! Wendy PS: sorry if my mail sounds a bit confused, but I just received the news today, so I am confused.... Also, I'm not a native speaker, since I live in Belgium. [Posted in FML issue 4701]