{"id":2846,"date":"2026-10-17T16:03:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T11:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2846"},"modified":"2026-10-17T16:03:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T11:03:48","slug":"pope-leo-to-leave-hospital-on-saturday-after-lung-cancer-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2846","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo to leave hospital on Saturday after lung cancer surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/pope\/\"><strong>Pope Leo<\/strong><\/a> <strong>is expected \u200bto leave the hospital on Saturday afternoon following surgery \u200cfor lung cancer, the Vatican said, after blood tests and chest imaging found him fit to return \u200bhome.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He will lead prayers from \u200bhis apartment at the Vatican to pilgrims \u2060in St. Peter\u2019s Square on Sunday, \u200bhis first public engagement since he went into \u200bhospital.<\/p>\n<p>The 71-year-old has been diagnosed with <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/healthcare-pharmaceuticals\/what-is-lung-adenocarcinoma-cancer-diagnosed-pope-leo-2026-10-14\/\">lung adenocarcinoma<\/a>, the most common form of lung cancer, and doctors \u200bremoved the lower lobe of his right \u200blung in an operation at Rome\u2019s Gemelli Hospital on \u200cTuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2060pope\u2019s doctors have said his surgery was completed successfully, without complications.<\/p>\n<p>They have not yet disclosed the size of the tumour \u200bor whether \u200bthe disease \u2060had spread to nearby lymph nodes, key factors in determining \u200bprognosis.<\/p>\n<p>The cancer diagnosis for a pope \u200bknown \u2060to be relatively young and energetic, and who was elected only in May 2025, caused \u2060shock \u200band <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/shape-pope-leos-papacy-more-uncertain-after-cancer-diagnosis-2026-10-14\/\">raised questions<\/a> about the \u200bfuture shape of his papacy as he deals with \u200bthe illness.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Leo is expected \u200bto leave the hospital on Saturday afternoon following surgery \u200cfor lung cancer, the Vatican said, after blood tests and chest imaging found him fit to return \u200bhome. He will lead prayers from \u200bhis apartment at the Vatican to pilgrims \u2060in St. Peter\u2019s Square on Sunday, \u200bhis first public engagement since he went into \u200bhospital. The 71-year-old has been diagnosed with lung adenocarcinoma, the most common form of lung cancer, and doctors \u200bremoved the lower lobe of his right \u200blung in an operation at Rome\u2019s Gemelli Hospital&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}