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Pope Leo XIV to be discharged from hospital after lung cancer surgery
October 17, 2026 at 10:25 AM · Updated 1h ago
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Pope Leo to be discharged from hospital today following lung cancer surgery
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Pope's health should not be taken 'for granted', says top Vatican diplomat
(opens the publisher’s site)Pope Leo XIV will be discharged from a Rome hospital on Saturday, four days after surgery for lung cancer, the Vatican announced.
- The Vatican said Pope Leo XIV will leave Gemelli Hospital on Saturday afternoon and return to the Vatican after celebrating midday mass at the facility.
- Surgeons removed a nodule from his right lung on Tuesday that was determined to be pulmonary adenocarcinoma, the most common form of lung cancer.
- His doctors, Dr. Luigi Carbone and Prof. Stefano Margaritora, said blood tests and a chest X-ray showed he was fit for discharge.
- Archbishop Paul Gallagher, Vatican foreign minister, said the pope's health should not be taken "for granted" and called the news "a bit of a game changer."
- Pope Leo XIV presided over Mass at Gemelli Hospital on Friday, the first Vatican images released since his Tuesday surgery.