A New World of Lung Cancer Therapy Awaits Pope Leo

Scritto il 14/10/2026
da Gina Kolata and Carolyn Y. Johnson

Lung cancer is still a leading cause of cancer death, but that rate is half what it was in the 1990s, partly because newly developed treatments are working.Pope Leo greeted his personal physician, Luigi Carbone, as he arrived at the Gemelli Hospital in Rome on Tuesday to remove a lung nodule.