{
  "id": 2391883,
  "title": "Hiss-tory Made: Jodie Foster Becomes First Snake To Receive Pioneering Cancer Therapy",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/21/hiss-tory-made-jodie-foster-becomes-first-snake-to-receive-pioneering",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-21T13:53:17.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/world/hiss-tory-made-jodie-foster-becomes-first-snake-to-receive-pioneering-cancer-therapy"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "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…",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}