I’m actually in El Sereno but do most of my own medical care in Pasadena. My cats go to Vet Villa (my experience has been fine, I know others don’t recommend, haven’t had health issues til recently though). I have a newish diabetic cat with a very new cancer diagnosis, looking for a vet oncologist opinion. Any personal recommendations?
My almost 15 year-old Neko was diagnosed with diabetes in late December 2025. I took her in because she had been feeling bony, but there had also been a lot of urine in the litter lately (I also have her sister, Isis). She’s also a little thing, was a bit over 6 lbs at the time, now she’s a little over 8.
Right away I switched her to Fancy Feast pate and Dr Elsey’s protein kibble (they previously free fed kibble with twice weekly wet food). She was given vetsulin. Fructosamine started at 751. We started on 1/2 unit, 3 week fructosamine down to 516, then 1 unit and down to 480, then 1.5 units back up to 509. Based on this sub, the bounce back, and my cat being a grazer, I asked to switch to Lantus. Started at 1 unit, up to 554, so we’re going up to 2 units tomorrow.
After failing at the Alpha Trak, I went to try a Libre 3+. 2 failed, one stayed on for just 30 hours but aside from some dips down to 295, she was mostly over 400/out of range. While a friend was helping me with the Libre, because of the way I was holding her, sitting up and facing away, I felt a lump on her mammary I would not have had a reason to feel. Has a cytology and it came back carcinoma with necrosis. The vet is saying to remove the mass with wide borders and get histopathology.
Doing some googling tonight and it looks like the cancer could be a cause of insulin resistance.
So I’m curious-have any of you had a cancer diagnosis proximate to diabetes diagnosis? Which did you discover first?
As a separate thing, I’m realizing that unless it’s small with no metastasis, this is probably not going to go well for my sugar baby. 😿