All of that, I'm assuming, will play a big role in any sort of recovery or treatment here.

Yeah, I mean, based on what we know so far, this is likely a very early stage lung cancer.

The complication rate from surgery is 1% to 2%, particularly when patients are really fit going into surgery, like we assume Pope Leo is.

He'll probably be in the hospital a couple days and then recover at home over the next four to six weeks.

The surgery is actually pretty minimally invasive, so I expect his recovery will go really well since he's gotten through surgery.

People don't normally just go in for routine scans, do they?

No, we do recommend lung cancer screening with low-dose chest CTs for a certain population, but those folks are people 50 to 80 who have had a 20-pack year history of smoking, so a substantial amount of tobacco exposure.

For Pope Leo, I'm guessing he just happened to catch it.