Re: RC: sarcoids

["C.M.Newell" <reshan@deyr.ultranet.com>]

At 12:08 PM 9/28/99 EDT, you wrote:
>In a message dated 9/27/99 10:15:32 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
>Trailrite@aol.com writes:
>
><< Yes, we have had a horse with sarcoids.  The treatment is, go all the
way, 
> with lazier removal and with follow up kemo (sp?-platium) treatments. >>
>
>Are you maybe thinking of melanomas rather than sarcoids?  I believe
sarcoids 
>are kind of like warts, not cancer related at all.  Am I mistaken?


	They are neoplasms which are most likely viral in origin. Whether they
need to be dealt with or simply ignored depends on their location and
aggressiveness.
				--CMNEwell, DVM


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