A New World of Lung Cancer Therapy Awaits Pope Leo NYT: Science By: Gina Kolata and Carolyn Y. Johnson 14 October 2026 at 13:02 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. Β© Guglielmo Mangiapane/ReutersPope Leo greeted his personal physician, Luigi Carbone, as he arrived at the Gemelli Hospital in Rome on Tuesday to remove a lung nodule.