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  "id": 14966278,
  "title": "Pope Leo XIV celebrates mass in hospital while recovering from lung cancer operation",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/16/pope-leo-xiv-celebrates-mass-in-hospital-while-recovering-from-lung",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-16T12:57:23.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "France 24",
    "slug": "france-24",
    "url": "https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20261016-pope-leo-xiv-celebrates-mass-in-hospital-while-recovering-from-lung-cancer-operation"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Pope Leo XIV celebrated a mass at Rome's Gemelli hospital Friday after undergoing surgery to remove a cancerous tumour from his right lung, photos released by the Vatican showed. Doctors said his recovery was progressing normally but that further tests would show whether the cancer had spread.",
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "El Pais English",
        "title": "Leo XIV’s cancer diagnosis upends the pontificate: ‘We thought we had a pope for 20 years; this changes everything in the Curia’",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/15/leo-xivs-cancer-diagnosis-upends-the-pontificate-we-thought-we-had-a",
        "published": "2026-10-15T11:47:56.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Fortune",
        "title": "Pope Leo XIV has lung cancer despite never smoking. Lung cancer screening only targets people who did",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/15/pope-leo-xiv-has-lung-cancer-despite-never-smoking-lung-cancer",
        "published": "2026-10-15T14:46:47.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "PBS NewsHour Health",
        "title": "What is adenocarcinoma? Here's what to know about Pope Leo XIV's form of lung cancer",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/15/what-is-adenocarcinoma-heres-what-to-know-about-pope-leo-xivs-form-of",
        "published": "2026-10-15T15:18:01.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Buenos Aires Times",
        "title": "Pope Leo's cancer operation already reshaping his papacy",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/15/pope-leos-cancer-operation-already-reshaping-his-papacy",
        "published": "2026-10-15T15:42:06.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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