Italian media reports that the
pontiff saw a brain-cancer specialist from Duke have Vatican watchers
wondering more than ever about the health of His Holiness.
VATICAN
CITY — The Vatican’s press machine kicked into high gear Wednesday to
try to dispel rumors that Pope Francis has a small benign brain tumor
that was discovered by a Japanese specialist several months ago at a
private clinic near Pisa, Italy.
As reported by Tuscan newspaper Quotidiano Nazionale
with the headline, “The Pope Is Sick,” Francis is said to have been
whisked away by helicopter in the dark of the night last spring for a
private checkup by Japanese oncologist Takanori Fukushima at the San
Rossore clinic near Pisa. Fukushima, 73, who is a professor at Duke
University Medical Center and at West Virginia University Medical
Center, sees some 600 patients a year as a specialist in brain cancer
and aneurysms. The newspaper did not specify just why Fukushima would
have been in Pisa to see the pontiff because he is not a practicing
doctor in Italy.
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Source: The Daily Beast
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