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Doctor says Pope Leo has ‘one of the more treatable’ cancers

Source: NBC World News

Summary

The Vatican announced that Pope Leo has been diagnosed with lung cancer following surgery to remove a lung nodule, during which doctors removed the lower lobe of his right lung. NBC News medical contributor Dr. John Torres says that the type of cancer, lung adenocarcinoma, is "one of the more treatable" types of cancers, and a treatment course will be prescribed following more testing by the pontiff's medical team.

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