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Angela Giuffrida in Rome

Pope Leo discharged from hospital after cancer operation

Pope Leo waving from the window of a car
Pope Leo XIV leaves the Gemelli hospital, Rome, four days after lung surgery. Photograph: Massimo Percossi/EPA

Pope Leo has been discharged from hospital in Rome after undergoing an operation to remove a cancerous tumour from his lung.

Leo, 71, was deemed “fit for discharge”, his doctors, Luigi Carbone and Stefano Margaritora, said in a statement published by the Vatican.

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