Pope Leo XIV will not need further treatment following lung cancer surgery, his doctors said Wednesday. The Vatican’s press office released an update from the pontiff’s doctors, saying final reports and analyses of tissue removed from his surgery were completed Wednesday. Stefano Margaritora, said.
Pope Leo, 71, had received a surgery earlier this month at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital to remove a lung nodule found during recent routine medical tests. Leo said the nodule was detected “at a very early stage.” He was discharged on Saturday and returned to his public duties on Sunday with a prayer from the window of the papal apartment at St. Leo said that “having come through this delicate phase, as you know, I will now gradually resume my activities, always with God’s help and your prayers.”
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