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The Pope is expected to remain in hospital for about a week.<br \/>Earlier, large crowds waited for hours outside the hospital for the Pope. They cheered greetings and well wishes as he passed, while he waved and smiled back through the lowered back window of his car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Leo XIV has been diagnosed with lung cancer but had successful surgery to remove a lower lobe of his right lung, the Vatican has said in a medical bulletin.The 71-year-old underwent a 90 minute surgery on Tuesday at Rome&#8217;s Gemelli Hospital and was subsequently diagnosed with lung adenocarcinoma.The Vactican said the operation was successful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pope diagnosed with lung cancer but had successful surgery - 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