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LSU Vet: Mascot tiger back from brink of cancer death
Original Publication Date: June 12, 2016 9:29AM
Publication Updated: April 28, 2025 5:47AM
BATON ROUGE, La. – LSU veterinarian David Baker says the lemon-sized swelling that had nearly closed one eye of the school’s tiger mascot has gone down completely since his radiation therapy at a human hospital.
He tells The Advocate (http://bit.ly/1PUQkUG ) that a week or two later might have been too late to treat Mike VI. But he continues to stress that Mike remains terminally ill from spindle cell sarcoma, with perhaps a year or two to live.
Mike was treated after hours June 1 at the Mary Byrd Perkins-Our Lady of the Lake Cancer Center, so no human patients were there.
The centre’s chief of medical physics, Jonas Fontenot, says dealing with a 420-pound tiger felt surreal. It took more than eight people, using a sling system created by the veterinary staff, to lift the anesthetized animal.
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