As in the case in human medicine, the causes of cancer in felines are often unknown. We never found out why father had metastatic liver cancer in the first place, and only God knows the why and what about Pavarotti’s pancreatic cancer.
Having a cat myself and with my neighbours dog recently diagnosed with canine cancer, I am having a look about cancers in cats. Read on as again for some strange reason: there are oh so many cancers, yet there is supposedly no clue in how to prevent it…
Feline pancreatic cancer
During a cat’s life they may have been exposed to different environment that may trigger the abnormalities in cells which will lead to the development of cancer.
It could be too much sun, or chemicals in the foods but the underlying causes and trigger for the cancer still remains unknown. Since we do not know what causes it exactly, cancer is very difficult to prevent.
For cats, fortunately for them, cancers affecting the liver and or pancreas are very uncommon.
Some of the symptoms of these cancers are:
- jaundice caused by the obstruction to the flow of bile,
- depression,
- weight loss,
- vomiting and
- a bloated abdomen.
The latter distension of the abdomen could be caused by the tumor or the buildup of fluids inside.
Prognosis for this type of cancer is very poor and with current available treatment methods, there has been very little response seen.
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