My cat has feline leukemia. Can it be cured & what's their lifespan?

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Can feline leukemia be cured? Or what treatment options are used to help prolong & keep a cat happy & healthy as possible? How long can they live after symptoms first appear? Pet's info: Cat | Mixed Breed | Female | spayed | 10 lbs

Destini R. Holloway, DVM · Accepted Answer

Poor LouLou. Unfortunately feline leukemia is a virus infection and cannot be cured but only managed. It has several stages of the Ruiz and pets can go into latent periods where they are asymptomatic. Treatment options are a bit pricey and consist of anti-viral medications like Human interferon alpha and Feline interferon w. These can improve the survival time of your pet LouLou. The prognosis for any cat with FeLv varies. Cars with latent infections may not develop can't clinical disease and can live a healthy life's with normal lifespan. But cats that have persistent viremia (shedding of the virus) have a death rate of 50% in 2 years and 80% in 3 years, if living in a multicat household. The median survival of FeLV positive cats is 2.4 years, but with proper care with antiviral medications many of these cats can live longer.

My cat has feline leukemia. Can it be cured & what's their lifespan?

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