FELINE LEUKEMIA RESOURCE PAGE - DEDICATED TO DUMPLIN BAKER

DUMPLIN WAS MANY THINGS, BUT NOT JUST A CAT. He was my child, my friend, my pet, my angel without wings, but now, he has wings in that he can fly in Heaven. Dumplin was diagnosed with FeLV and Lymphoblastic Lymphosarcoma, and, at Texas A & M, given two months to live. He survived five and a half months, and went to Heaven (yes, as a doctor myself, I believe in a heaven for humans and pets) at 148 pm on a dark , stormy Saturday , December 27,2008. That just happened to be my late grandmother's birthday.

He had endured chemotherapy, all kinds of shots, and in the end, a feeding tube, because he quit eating and drinking. My wife and I did everything that conventional medicine had to offer. He received the same level of care he would if he were a human. The only thing we did not try, was Staphyloccocus Protein A . And, I will probably beat myself up for that as long as I live, because I will never know if this one treatment form, would have helped or not. We used chemotherapy (the only chemical that affected his tumor was cyclophosphamide) , neupogen, prednisone, procrit, PetAlive C-capsules (for pets with cancer, it contains Chinese and Western herbs shown to have anti-tumor properties). We used Forskolin to try to increase intracellular Cyclic AMP levels to promote or induce differentiation of the anaplastic disease of cancer. In the end, I even trying qigong and acupressure.

I want to make one thing clear. I am a Chiropractic doctor, not a Veterinarian. My grandfather was a Vet, my uncle was a Medical Doctor, my cousin is a Medical Doctor (pathologist) and great grandfather was a general practice "family doctor".

Nothing on this page or any linked page , should be construed as me giving Veterinary or Medical advice, and even if I was a Vet, I would not be so foolish as to give specific advice on a web page about any animal patient for which I was not the treating doctor, or consulting doctor, with results of all tests and imaging.

I did find that as I was researching what I could on Feline Leukemia Virus, and lymphosarcoma, and treatments, it was very hard to look here and there, and spend a lot of time, when it could have been made simpler and less time consuming if someone had a page that really had links to everything they could find.

This is not to say there are not good feline leukemia research pages out there, there are. But as far as a "one stop shop" resource. I haven't found it. And, though I want to create a central point for information, mine will probably not fill the bill for a "one stop" information clearing house for feline leukemia.

So, in this page I will try to offer as much information via my links as possible, so that you won't have to spend as much time in that Google, Yahoo, Live, or other search box, as you would were it NOT for this page.

My first "Thumbs Up" link is the page by Fran Hopkins, also on
Angelfire. She calls it the WHOLE CAT JOURNAL, and it is a good jumping off point into the field of feline leukemia.

I quote from Fran's page as follows:
" Testing for the virus

Two main tests are used to detect FeLV: the ELISA test, which can be done at the vet's office, and the IFA (immunoflouroassay) or Hardy test The ELISA test detects the virus in the blood; the IFA, within white blood cells. Notes Dr. Debbie Mallu, a holistic veterinarian in Sedona, Arizona, the ELISA test shows an early infection. "The animal may ward it off," she says.

Conventional treatments, including chemotherapy, generally relieve symptoms and may prolong life. However, there are no guarantees. Dr. Mallu encourages ha clients not to view an FeLV positive as a death sentence. She urges them to "be more positive. Think, 'Yes, my cat is sick, but what can we do to make him better?'"

Although I quoted from just one section, used under the
"Fair Use" provision of Copyright Law, I urge anyone with a cat, especially one who is or may be, FeLV positive to bookmark Fran's page and use it as a reference.

Our own ordeal, from at first, a missed diagnosis, to the final proper diagnosis, was a nightmare. We are not wealthy, but we told our Vet, Dr. Michael Maris, of Tyler (Shelley Drive Animal Clinic) that my wife and I were in it for the long haul, and whatever the cost, we would bear it, and we did. My wife took Dumplin for evaluation to the famous Small Animal Clinic at the world famous Texas A & M. There, he received diagnostic work, and was seen by the world famous cat specialist, Dr. John R. August, DVM. He is originally from England, transplanted to the States, and is "the man" when it comes to cats, since he quite literally "wrote the book" on internal medicine when it comes to domestic cats. "The book" is "Consultation on Feline Internal Medicine", a tome that will set up back more than a hundred bucks even on Amazon.com.

We learned that nothing about Dumplin's case was typical, however, the oncologists and other doctors said Dumplin only had two months to live. Because Dumplin was a sensitive animal, they advised against chemotherapy because they were afraid it would stress him out too much. We decided that was not a choice . Instead of just taking him home, trying to make him comfortable, awaiting death, we started the fight to save him. Our Dumplin had more courage and fight in one little claw than I do in my whole body, even though I was in martial arts, as a practitioner and writer, for more than 30 years. We would not be true to his nature and spirit if we gave up without a fight. Since Dumplin passed on to Heaven on the 27th and this is only the 29th, the wound in my heart is still to raw to dig around in there and dredge up what Dumplin went through in those five and a half months of struggle. He did it for me and my wife, his mom and dad. He would not give up because he loved us and knew we wanted him to stay, but when the loss of function of legs and arms, and everything got too great, the only kind and loving thing was to tell him it was all right to let go, and go to heaven to meet our other departed babies (cats and dogs).

The purpose of this and other pages I will put online, is to give anyone ELSE that is facing a FeLV positive and/or cancer positive love of your live, a fighting chance, armed with whatever good information and data I can provide.

I have a dedicated email account just for this and related pages,
so if you want to get in touch with me, please contact me at
dumplinbaker@gmail.com .

OK, we're just getting started, so come back for more.
In the meantime, here are a few links to get you started:

Most of these are about the use of Staph Protein A
against FeLV and cancer tumors
The first link is one of the good reports
on use of this approach
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=391946

Download the PDF of the full report from one of the two following
sources for the article:
1) SOURCE ONE
2) SOURCE TWO

ABSTRACT from the Article:
"We have injected purified Staphylococcus aureus protein A intraperitoneally into leukemic cats infected with feline leukemia virus, into cats persistently infected with feline leukemia virus but without hematologic or cytologic abnormalities, and into healthy cats without feline leukemia virus infection. Pre- and post-treatment serum samples were evaluated sequentially for interferon activity and for complement-dependent cytotoxic antibody. Our results indicate that serum interferon increased dramatically (less than 3 to 324 units/ml) during treatment only in cats that responded to staphylococcal protein A therapy. Increase of interferon preceded or was closely associated with increasing levels of cytotoxic antibody, loss of viremia, and correction of cytological and hematological abnormalities of three leukemic cats. The cytotoxic antibody was shown to be specific for envelope glycoprotein gp70 of the feline leukemia virus. One persistently feline leukemia virus-infected cat without leukemia that became nonviremic also developed high levels of interferon and specific cytotoxic antibody. By contrast, interferon levels of cats not responding to treatment had levels of less than 3 to 27 units/ml. Normal healthy cats injected with staphylococcal protein A showed moderate transient increases of interferon but no detectable cytotoxic antibodies to FL-74 cells. These data suggest that interferon and cytotoxic antibody may play important, possibly complementary roles in inducing remission of leukemia and loss of viremia in cats treated with staphylococcal protein A." (Font Color Change Added
for Emphasis by the author of this page)

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