Pope Leo XIV’s cancer surgery successful, Vatican rules out further treatment

The Vatican has confirmed that Pope Leo XIV will not require further cancer treatment after surgery successfully removed the affected tissue from his left lung.
The update was contained in a medical bulletin released by the Vatican press office on Wednesday following the completion of laboratory tests on tissue removed during the pontiff’s surgery last week.
According to the bulletin, the tests confirmed that the pope had pulmonary adenocarcinoma, a type of lung cancer, but the disease was localised.
“The results have confirmed that the condition was a pulmonary adenocarcinoma and that the disease was localized,” the bulletin stated.
It added that a subsequent assessment by cancer...