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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Angela Giuffrida in Rome

Pope Leo’s recovery from lung cancer surgery ‘progressing as planned’

Pope Leo talks to his personal physician Luigi Carbone
Pope Leo talks to his personal physician, Luigi Carbone, before his admission to hospital on Tuesday. Photograph: Ciro De Luca/Reuters

Pope Leo’s recovery from a lung cancer operation is progressing as planned, his doctors have said, as the pontiff received good wishes from around the world, including from Britain’s King Charles.

Leo, who had a cancerous mass removed from his right lung late on Tuesday, began walking in his hospital room after respiratory therapy on Wednesday. He was eating normally, his doctors Luigi Carbone and Stefano Margaritoria said in a statement issued by the Vatican.

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