Pope Leo XIV was diagnosed with lung cancer and had part of his right lung removed, the Vatican announced. Dr. David Jones, a thoracic surgeon at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, breaks the timeline for possible treatments Pope Leo could undergo and the likely stage of the cancer based on the size of the nodule that was removed from the pope’s lung.
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