1. In your opinion, what medication or procedure best treats pancreatic cancer and why?
2. At what stage of cancer does surgery become more harmful than effective?
3. Why is that operation rooms in veterinarian clinics much less sterile than those used for humans?
4. What is the pre op. medications that a dog with Insulinoma would have to go through before surgical removal of the tumor?
5. What is the benefit/side effects of prescribing diazoxide to a dog?
6. Benefits/side effects of glucocorticoids?
7. Benefits/effects of pednisone?
8. Where is the best place to buy diazoxide for a dog? (because it is so expensive)
9. How long does a dog typically have Insulinoma before the symptoms of it appear?
10. Which treatment, surgical removal, diazoxide with prednisone, or glucocoticoids, prolongs a dogs life the most?
11. How can a side effect of diazoxide by hyperglycemia if it is supposed to treat hypoglycemia?
12. What are the exact differences between hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia?
13. What is the difference between Insulinoma and diabetes?
14. How can a dog die of pancreatitis?
15. During surgery, how can a surgeon avoid palpating the pancreas which in turn causes pancreatitis?
16. How much of the pancreas can be removed for a dog to still survive?
17. How common is it for the Insulinoma to metastasize to the respiratory system?
18. Out of all your years of being a vet, how many times have you come across a case of this form of pancreatic cancer?
19. How do the pancreatic tumors look? How does a surgeon differentiate it from the rest of the pancreas?
20. Can you think of any other areas of pancreatic cancer that I can study that would help me with my research?
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