UK zoo saves cancer-stricken python with pioneering treatment

Chester Zoo successfully treated a cancer-stricken python named Jodie Foster using pioneering surgery and electrochemotherapy, a first for snakes. Learn mo

Chester zoo resident, 23, ‘back to her usual feisty self’ after electrochemotherapy for tumour in her jaw A 15ft (4.5-metre) python is believed to be the first snake in the world to be given a pioneering, life-saving cancer treatment normally used on humans. The 50kg reticulated python, named Jodie Foster after the Hol

Chester Zoo, in northwest England, said the 4.5m reticulated python had fully recovered.

A U.K. zoo on Friday hailed curing a cancer-stricken python named after Hollywood star Jodie Foster, who became the first snake to receive an innovative treatment combining surgery and electrochemotherapy (ECT).