Pope to leave hospital after lung cancer surgery
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Pope Leo XIV is being released from the hospital, four days after lung cancer surgery, the Vatican says, and will deliver the traditional Sunday noon blessing from a window overlooking St Peter’s Square.
The 71-year-old Leo had the lower lobe of his right lung removed after doctors identified a suspected cancerous nodule.
The surgery confirmed he had adenocarcinoma, the most common type of lung cancer.
His personal physician and surgeon said in a statement that Leo was “deemed fit for discharge from the hospital” based on blood test results and a chest X-ray performed on Saturday morning along with an assessment of his clinical condition.
He was set to leave the hospital in the early afternoon and return to the Vatican, the Vatican said.
AP