{"id":588917,"date":"2026-10-14T08:51:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T05:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=588917"},"modified":"2026-10-14T09:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T06:18:07","slug":"pope-leo-xiv-undergoes-surgery-to-remove-lung-tumor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/pope-leo-xiv-undergoes-surgery-to-remove-lung-tumor","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo XIV Undergoes Surgery to Remove Lung Tumor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Pope Leo XIV<\/strong> underwent surgery on Tuesday to remove a lung tumor. The pontiff spent about three hours in the operating room, while the procedure itself lasted approximately an hour and a half. The operation was successful and there were no complications.<\/p>\n<p>The Pope regained consciousness after the surgery and returned to his hospital room. He has been diagnosed with cancer.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The lower lobe of the right lung was removed using a video-assisted technique. An intraoperative histological examination confirmed the diagnosis of lung adenocarcinoma, as suspected based on preoperative tests,&#8221;<\/em> the Holy See said in a press release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Leo XIV underwent surgery on Tuesday to remove a lung tumor. The pontiff spent about three hours in the operating room, while the procedure itself lasted approximately an hour and a half. The operation was successful and there were no complications. The Pope regained consciousness after the surgery and returned to his hospital room. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":588918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6acf1ea52fdcb.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Pope Leo XIV Undergoes Surgery to Remove Lung Tumor"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143284,143127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-588917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-society"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":588920,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588917\/revisions\/588920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}