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  Pope Leo XV diagnosed with lung cancer, after surgery to remove part
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  of right lung, This article is being read by an automated voice,
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  brought to you by Everlet. Rome the AP. Pope Leo the fourteenth
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  underwent surgery Tuesday that confirmed that he has lung cancer, and doctors
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  removed The
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  lower lobe of his right lung, the Vatican said Tests confirmed a
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  diagnosis of lung adenocarcinoma, The Vatican said in a medical bulletin after
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  the surgery. It said the diagnosis had been suspected by preoperative tests
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  and was confirmed during surgery. The statement made no mention of treatment
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  going forward, and the Vatican said doctors were not currently speaking of
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  chemotherapy or other therapies pending the results of other tests. The Vatican
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  press office noted the medical statement spoke of the radical removal of
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  the lobe as an indication that doctors removed all suspect tissue in
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  hopes of removing any lingering traces of the cancer. Leo's lymph nodes
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  also would have been removed and tested, to determine if the cancer
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  had spread, and there was no word yet on those test results.
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  Adenocarcinoma Is the most common type of lung cancer, also with the
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  most favorable prognosis, said Dr. Stephen Liu, a lung cancer expert at
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  Georgetown's Lombardy Comprehensive Cancer Center. While we know the diagnosis, we now
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  need to know the stage. We now need to know how big
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  it is, how many spots in the lung are involved. Is it
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  just one nodule or more than one? And the lymph nodes are
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  they cancerous? Lou said. If The cancer has spread, more tests will
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  be needed to determine what kind of therapy to pursue, he said,
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  Options include chemotherapy, a combination of chemotherapy and immunotherapy, or targeted therapy,
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  which involves oral pills for specific cancers. The Vatican says the surgery
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  was successful. The seventy one year old was in the operating room
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  for about three hours, uh the Vatican statement said. The surgery itself
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  lasted approximately ninety minutes. The surgery was successful and there were no
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  complications, the statement said, adding that The pope later returned to his
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  room. The right lung is divided into three sections or lobes while
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  The
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  left has two. After one lobe is removed, the remainder of the
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  lung can gradually compensate, especially in otherwise healthy and physically active people.
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  Leo had walked into Rome's Gemelli Hospital through the main entrance earlier
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  in the day and waved to dozens of well wishers who had
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  gathered to greet him. The
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  Vatican said the surgery would be performed by a team led by
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  Gemelli's chief thoracic surgeon, Dr. Stefano Margheritore. The American Pontiff has
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  offered a rare level of transparency about the first publicly disclosed major
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  health problem of his seventeen month papacy. He revealed the discovery of
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  the localized nodule during his Sunday noon prayer and announced that he
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  would have it removed. Soncologists said prior to the operation that even
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  if the nodule turned out to be cancerous, Leo's prognosis would be
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  excellent since it would have been removed at an early stage. The
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  Vatican on Monday cancelled all Leo's audiences through october twentieth. While Gemelli
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  has a specific papal apartment that past popes have used, complete with
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  a private chapel on the tenth floor, Leo will actually be staying
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  in a nearby room since the papal apartment is undergoing renovations, according
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  to the Vatican Press office. Recovery could allow November travel to South
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  America. There was no word on whether Leo would be able to
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  keep his planned trip to South America next month. Oncologists often advise
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  patients not to fly for three weeks after surgery which would give
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  the Pope just the interval needed to make his planned November 617
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  trip to Uruguay, Argentina, and Peru depending on his recovery. The current
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  itinerary for the trip is ambitious and the longest of his papacy
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  to date, calling for Leo to clock just over 31,000 km 19,000
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  miles on a dozen flights and two helicopter rides, and a significant
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  altitude change in Peru. He has decided to undergo surgery soon in
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  order to not change his plans for future overseas trips, so there
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  is no need to worry as it is not an emergency, said
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  Tokyo Cardinal Kikuchi Tutomu, who saw Leo on Monday. A lung nodule
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  is a small abnormal area measuring less than 3 cm that sometimes
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  appears on a CT scan of the chest or abdomen. Often The
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  scans are done to investigate trauma or a lung infection unrelated to
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  a lung cancer screening. A nodule can be benign or malignant, and
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  oftentimes surgical removal is recommended both to establish whether it is cancer
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  and to treat a malignancy while it is still localized. Pope was
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  hospitalized for typhoid fever in nineteen eighty five. This is believed to
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  be the second hospitalization for Leo, who is known to be sporty
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  and in good shape with weekly tennis games and swimming. As a
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  young missionary priest, he came down with typhoid fever in nineteen eighty
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  five, soon after arriving in Chulucanas, Peru. The illness and hospitalization were
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  a cathartic moment for him to decide to stay in the poverty
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  and discomfort of Peru after living in relative comfort in Rome. A
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  decision that ultimately paved the way to his papacy, according to an
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  interview Leo gave to Elise Ann Allen in twenty twenty five, for
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  Pope Leo XV, the biography. According to the book, Leo said he
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  prayed to God to let him die rather than suffer the horrible
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  pain of the fever. I was hooked up to an IV and
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  I said, If this is your sense of humor, Lord, I think
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  you could do a little better. Obviously I survived, I recovered, but
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  it turned out to be a very significant moment for me because
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  it was like, Well, you've already dealt with the illness. You already
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  see what the needs are here here. The order, the Augustinians, the
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  church are telling you, We need you here, go for it. I
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  never look back.