On the record · Updated October 18, 2026
biographer of Pope Leo
1 things Elise Ann Allen said, verbatim, on October 14, 2026, each linked to where it ran. Grouped by the questions at issue, with who supported, disputed, or qualified each one.
Positions
Qualifies
“premature to be alarmed, but it's also premature to say everything's fine”
BBC News Pope Leo has lung cancer; surgeons removed the lower lobe of his right lung ›
Others on this question
“the outcomes are quite good, with a 5-year disease free survival of (more than) 80% for the earliest stages of non-small cell lung cancer”
“when these things are caught in time, they can be resolved.”
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