A 23-year-old reticulated python named Jodie Foster at Chester Zoo has made history after undergoing electrochemotherapy for a malignant jaw tumour. The treatment, usually used in humans, was adapted for the snake after surgery failed. Months later, Jodie remains cancer-free and has returned to normal eating habits.
A 23-year-old reticulated python named Jodie Foster is believed to have become the first snake in the world to receive a pioneering cancer treatment normally used on humans after developing a malignant tumour in her jaw.
The 15-foot (4.5-metre), 50kg python, which lives at Chester Zoo, underwent electrochemotherapy after surgery to remove the tumour failed to prevent it from returning.
Keepers first suspected something was wrong when Jodie began eating less and spending more time inactive in her habitat. She was subsequently diagnosed with a fibrosarcoma, a malignant tumour, in her jaw. The tumour was surgically removed but later returned and began invading her jawbone, putting her life at risk.
Months after undergoing electrochemotherapy, Jodie is eating normally and is “back to her usual bright and feisty self”, The Guardian reports.
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