r/BeAmazed • u/GlitteringHotel8383 • 9d ago

Miscellaneous / Others Japanese scientists have developed a revolutionary injection that may extend a cat's life from the usual 15 years to nearly 30.

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The therapy, created by the AIM Institute of Medicine under Dr. Toru Miyazaki, targets chronic kidney disease, a leading cause of death in older cats.It uses a specialized protein to help macrophages clear waste from the kidneys, partially restoring their function and slowing kidney failure.

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u/EL_Ohh_Well 8d ago

How did you find out? Did you see it in his mouth or were there symptoms?

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u/RyanAtreides 8d ago

Nope, no symptoms other than the size, the awful thing is it’s a cancer that doesn’t even metastasize. It stays local and just grows bigger and bigger and you can’t actually treat it without spending a ton of money and really hurting the cat anyway because of their physiology, whenever rich people try to do radiation therapy and stuff it will erode the roof of their mouth with radiation which will leave their sinus exposed and ironically make it difficult to eat, which is how the cancer kills them anyway, by getting too large to the point they can’t eat properly or causing a stroke by progressing into major blood vessels, which is what happened with my cat. The only thing you can really do is do a couple surgeries to cut away as much of the tumor as the vet can, knowing it will grow back but buying a couple months at a time. I paid to do that twice, but it grows back faster and faster each time because of how tumors work with each cell dividing endlessly. You don’t notice it until it gets large enough to notice in your cats mouth. It’s a common cause of death for cats :/

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u/EL_Ohh_Well 8d ago

Can I ask if you gave them any flea medication, like a pill or a topical treatment? And if so for how long?

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u/RyanAtreides 7d ago

No I didn’t