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Pope Leo won’t require further treatment after lung surgery, doctors say

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Pope Leo XIV will not need further treatment following lung cancer surgery , his doctors said Wednesday.

The Vatican’s press office said in an update from the pope’s doctors that final reports and analyses of tissue removed from his surgery were completed Wednesday.

“The results have confirmed that the condition was a pulmonary adenocarcinoma and that the disease was localized,” said his doctors, Dr. Luigi Carbone and Professor Stefano Margaritora.

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