NewzPeter's Square for his weekly Sunday prayer that the growth was "well-contained" and caught at an early stage. The 71-year-old pontiff will undergo surgery in the coming days to remove a nodular lesion on his lung. It is the first health scare of the 71-year-old pontiff's tenure.
Pope Leo said on Sunday that doctors had detected a small growth on his lung during a recent health check and he would be undergoing surgery this week to remove it, in the first health scare of the 71-year-old pontiff’s tenure. “Recently, during some medical examinations, doctors found a localised nodule in my lung,” said the pontiff.
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