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Leo himself announced the news of his operation during his weekly Sunday prayers, telling the crowd in St Peter's Square that doctors had found a nodule on his lung.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

A small nodule is called a "coin lesion" because on X-rays it looks like a coin, Professor Federico Venuta, head of Thoracic Surgery at the Policlinico Umberto 1 hospital in Rome, told AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

At a recent health checkup, doctors had discovered a small nodule in the 71-year-old pontiff’s lung, known as adenocarcinoma.

From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2026

He said the nodule was detected at “a very early stage” and that his doctors had recommended surgery to remove it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

“Right,” he said, and gripped a golden nodule that protruded from the trunk.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

Such nodules "could be a whole range of benign lesions -- inflammatory, infectious, autoimmune, or congenital -- or they could be malignant," Venuta said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

"It was her leg which was stuck within a rock cleft, and there was some space around the side of it and also nodules of rock which were stopping it from coming out," Rees said.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026

Before, Ahmad could tap — meaning to cut incisions in the acacia trees, which exude sap that a few weeks later hardens into nodules of Hashab gum — four orchards in one go.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2026

"We can't quite explain yet why the nodules appear where they do," Seeger said.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 14, 2026

Five to ten days later, hard nodules began growing at the injection sites.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot