RE: incidence of malignant histio in berners at least 10 yrs old

2002-10-10 Thread Pat Long & Paul Dangel
Coleen, Using the 2000 Health Survey data, out of 45 deaths from histio, the age range was: 45 months - 125 months, or not quite 4 years to just over 10 years. The percentage of dogs over the age of 10 years was 13.9% Looking at just the ones that were autopsied, there were 29 histio dea

Re: incidence of malignant histio in berners at least 10 yrs old

2002-10-10 Thread Molly Bass
good ideas - also, as hard as it may be, as soon as your dog is diagnosed with histio, PLEASE contact Heidi Parker at [EMAIL PROTECTED] so she may get you a blood collection kit. This is so important to not only our beloved berners but also to other breeds suffering from this fatal disease. Or, h

incidence of malignant histio in berners at least 10 yrs old

2002-10-10 Thread Kevin and Coleen Hacker
Hi everyone, It could help the malignant histiocytosis study at Fred Hutchinson's if we could provide them with our best guess as to what % of berners greater than or equal to 10 years old pass away due to malignant histiocytosis. I realize that necropsies are normally not done on older dogs so