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The Vatican announced on Tuesday evening that
the doctors performing a surgery on Pope Leo to

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remove a lung nodule had found cancer in the
lung, and they had removed one lobe of his

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lower right lung. At this point in time, we're
waiting for further diagnosis from the doctors

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in terms of what the prognosis for the Pope is
. Medical experts who spoke to Reuters said this

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surgery can be curative, that if it was caught
early, as the Pope announced on Sunday, and

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everything was removed. And there was no
involvement of the lymph nodes. The surgery can

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catch all the cancer, and the prognosis can be
good. At this point, we're waiting on further

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information from the Vatican or from the
Pope's doctors about his prognosis and whether

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they think they have caught all the cancer in
that surgery on Tuesday evening. I think it's

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fair to say at this point that the
communication about Pope Leo's health has shown

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a kind of level of unusual transparency for
the Vatican for a long time. It was kind of

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taboo to talk about the health of the Pope, a
spiritual figure for the world's 1.4 billion

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Catholics, and just not something you would
talk about in polite conversation. Pope Leo

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himself told the world on Sunday here in St.
Peter's Square that doctors on a recent health

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checkup had found a growth on his lung, and he
would need to undergo surgery this week. That's

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quite unusual. His predecessor, Pope Francis,
also had to be hospitalized several times as he

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became more frail. Francis died last year. At
the age of 88, he had been hospitalized several

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times, and it was a bit unknown that during
his hospitalizations how much information we

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would get with Pope Leo on Tuesday night, just
hours after his surgery. His doctors put out a

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pretty detailed medical bulletin which said
bluntly that they had operated on the Pope,

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that they had found cancer, and they had
removed part of his lung, and they promised us

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that they will continue providing more updates
, and we can expect more prognosis in terms of

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the Pope's condition in coming days.