Rabbit Uterine carcinoma

Re: Rabbit Uterine carcinoma

Rob Loxley — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 18:56:29 GMT

[quote user="Iain McAllister"]A little google-ing reveals that the 80% figure comes from a study in 1958[/quote]

Indeed, and the incidence varied somewhat between breeds.

I see a fair few older rabbits and quite a few uterine tumors, maybe not 80% but who knows how many ill older female rabbits are never presented?

Given it's a nasty disease, hard to treat (as often presented late on) and preventable, I'm happy to strongly advise neutering all female rabbits.

Re: Rabbit Uterine carcinoma

Rachael Winder — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 18:38:40 GMT

Purely anecdotal and ceratinly no idea of numbers, but virtually all entire elderly does I see wind up with a uterine mass and it does tend to be the terminal event for them. However the majority I deal with are speyed so my view may be skewed.

Re: Rabbit Uterine carcinoma

Neil Wheadon — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 18:19:04 GMT

20 years ago, in a rural practice, if someone brought a rabbit it was an unusual event and with no training in rabbits at college they could have proved tricky. However there were 3 conditions

1) Any age - Teeth

2) Under 5 - pasteurella

3) Over 5 - uterine cancer.

If anyone brought a sick female rabbit into the surgery, there was almost invariably a mass in the abdomen.

I've used this anecdote ever since to persuade owners to get their rabbit spayed.

Neil

PS And we had an Australian partner, so you can guess what he thought of rabbits!!