Pope Leo to be discharged from the hospital after lung cancer surgery

Pope Leo XIV will be discharged from the hospital on Saturday after undergoing surgery to remove a cancerous nodule from his right lung, the Vatican said, and will make an appearance to lead prayer on Sunday.

“Following the conclusions reached by the medical team this morning, Pope Leo XIV will be discharged today from Gemelli Polyclinic Hospital, where he was admitted for surgery on his right lung,” the Holy See Press said Saturday in a statement.

“He will leave the hospital in the early afternoon and return to the Vatican,” it added.

He was expected to recite the Angelus prayer from the window of the papal apartment at St. Peter’s Basilica on Sunday, according to the statement.

The pontiff’s personal doctor, Dr. Luigi Carbone, and the head of thoracic surgery at Gemelli Hospital, Dr. Stefano Margaritora, said that in light of blood tests and a chest X-ray performed Saturday morning, and after an assessment of his clinical condition, “the Holy Father has been deemed fit for discharge from the hospital.”

So far, Leo’s doctors have given no indication that the pontiff might need any further treatment. And the Vatican has not indicated whether the cancer might have spread.

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