The School of Veterinary Medicine announced last week the opening of the new Rosenthal Imaging and Treatment Center at its veterinary hospital.
"We are very excited about the opening of the Commonwealth's only oncology and imaging facility devoted entirely to veterinary medicine," Veterinary School Dean Joan Hendricks.
The 9,200 square foot facility includes MRI and radiation-treatment technology.
The first patient for the new MRI was a 10-year-old German shepherd named Beny from the K-9 Unit of the West Whiteland Police Department.
The facility's first radiation-therapy patient was a 32-year-old yellow anaconda named Sir Mix-A-Lot from the Brandywine Zoo in Wilmington, Del.
The anaconda was diagnosed with a life-threatening carcinoma that required radiation to completely eliminate the tumor.
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