Leo XIV is discharged from hospital and returns to the Vatican after undergoing surgery for lung cancer

Pope Leo XIV has been discharged from the hospital and will leave early in the afternoon the Gemelli Hospital in Rome where he underwent surgery for lung adenocarcinoma, the Vatican press office reported.

"After blood tests, the chest x-ray performed this morning and the evaluation of his clinical condition, the Holy Father has been discharged," indicates the communication from the medical team released by the Holy See.

After five days of hospitalization, the pontiff will return to the Vatican early in the afternoon and "tomorrow he will pray the Angelus from the window of the papal apartments."

On Sunday, October 11, Leo XIV publicly announced from the window of the Apostolic Palace of the Vatican that he had to undergo surgery to remove a nodule in his lung.

The pontiff's intervention took place on the afternoon of the 13th, in an operation that lasted 90 minutes and in which an adenocarcinoma, a type of cancer, was removed, as well as the lower lobe of the right lung using a video-assisted surgery technique, a "radical" technique to remove cancerous tissue.

The pontiff's postoperative recovery has progressed favorably in the five days that he has been hospitalized, which has allowed him to resume part of his work activity and even celebrate masses in the area set up for the pope on the tenth floor of the Roman polyclinic.

Yesterday, Friday, the Vatican released the first photographs of the pope after the operation, some images where he can be seen, with apparent good appearance, celebrating mass at the Gemelli with his personal secretary, the Peruvian Edgar Rimaycuna.