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Doctor says Pope Leo has 'one of the more treatable' cancers

The Vatican announced that Pope Leo has been diagnosed with lung cancer following surgery to remove a lung nodule, during which doctors removed the lower lobe of his right lung. NBC News medical contributor Dr. John Torres says that the type of cancer, ​lung adenocarcinoma, is "one of the more treat

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