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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Nadeem Badshah

Pope will not need further cancer treatment, doctors say

Pope Leo XIV smiles while riding in the popemobile at St Peter's Square.
Pope Leo delivered his weekly address on Wednesday as he gradually resumes normal duties. Photograph: Franco Origlia/Getty Images

Pope Leo will not need any further ⁠treatment after undergoing lung cancer surgery last week, his doctors said, indicating ⁠that his tumour had ⁠not ​spread.

The ⁠71-year-old pontiff had the lower lobe of his ​right lung removed on 13 October and was diagnosed with lung adenocarcinoma, the most ‌common form of lung cancer.

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