教皇利奥周日在圣彼得广场对人群表示，医生在他的肺部发现了“一个小的、局部的结节”，随后安慰的话语接连而至。大多数结节是良性的，媒体上的医学专家很快表示。可能不需要担心。
When Pope Leo told the crowd in St. Peter's Square on Sunday that doctors had found "a small, localized nodule" in his lung, the reassurances came fast. Most nodules are benign, media medical experts quickly said. Probably nothing to worry about.
不久前，我也听到了关于我自己肺部的同样安慰。当时他们错了，而周二梵蒂冈证实，现在他们也错了。这个结节是腺癌，即肺癌。外科医生通过几个小切口，在摄像头的引导下而非开胸手术的情况下，切除了教皇右肺的下叶，他当天下午就回到了自己的房间。
I heard the same reassurances about my own lung not long ago. They were wrong then, and on Tuesday the Vatican confirmed they were wrong now. The nodule was adenocarcinoma, lung cancer. Surgeons removed the lower lobe of the Holy Father's right lung through a few small incisions, guided by a camera rather than an open chest, and he was back in his room the same afternoon.
教皇利奥在外科医生切除部分右肺后被诊断出患肺癌，梵蒂冈称 这几乎正是我当时的经历。12个月前，我的右肺有一半被切除，仅四周后我就又开始跑步了。因此，当我得知教皇被诊断出肺癌时，我的第一反应不是恐惧，而是希望。
POPE LEO DIAGNOSED WITH LUNG CANCER AFTER SURGEONS REMOVE PART OF RIGHT LUNG, VATICAN SAYS That is almost exactly what happened to me. Half of my right lung was removed just 12 months ago, and I was running just four weeks after that. So, my first reaction when I heard the pope's diagnosis was not dread. It was hope.
我当时43岁，是四个孩子的母亲，每天跑步，也是一位肺科医生的女儿。得知自己患肺癌的那天早上，我已经完成了一次六英里的跑步，全程没有任何异常感觉。我没有任何症状。按照目前的指南，我不应被视为高风险人群，也不符合筛查条件。
I was 43, a mother of four, a daily runner, and the daughter of a lung doctor. The morning I learned I had lung cancer, I had already completed a six-mile run without a hint that anything was wrong. I had no symptoms. Under current guidelines, I was not supposed to be at risk, and I did not qualify for screening.
教皇利奥接受血液检测和X光检查，此前接受癌症手术，梵蒂冈表示 我的诊断来自我自行选择的一次扫描，而非出现症状。我和丈夫一直倾向于主动检测，在他建议下，我预约了我认为会是一次基线全身扫描，费用自付。结果显示，我右肺有一个3.8厘米的结节。放射科医生初步建议只有在出现症状时才需复查。但我的父亲是肺科医生，朋友是肺科放射科医生，他们坚持让我尽早复查。
POPE LEO UNDERGOES BLOOD TESTS, X-RAY FOLLOWING CANCER SURGERY, VATICAN SAYS My diagnosis came from a scan I chose, not from a symptom. My husband and I have always leaned toward proactive testing, and at his urging I scheduled what I assumed would be a baseline full-body scan, paid for out of pocket. It showed a 3.8-centimeter nodule on my right lung. Initial advice from the reading radiologist recommended to follow-up if symptoms occurred. But with a father as a lung doctor and a friend as a lung radiologist, they pushed me to follow up sooner.
胸部新低剂量CT显示，该肿块仅在两个月内就增大了。但这次扫描导致了我被诊断为1B期肺癌，就像教皇一样，接受了手术切除。尽管如此，我从未出现任何症状。
The new low dose CT of my chest showed the mass had grown in just two months. But that scan led to a diagnosis of stage 1B lung cancer and, like the pope, to surgery to remove it. Still, no symptoms ever appeared.
手术四周整整一天后，我乘坐飞机。几周后我又开始跑步。早期发现并由经验丰富的医疗团队和每天都做此类手术的外科医生处理，肺癌不是死刑。它是一种可治愈的疾病，一个可解决的问题。如果教皇坚持他在南美洲的11月访问，他将登上那架飞机，时间点与我术后相距不远。
Four weeks to the day after my operation, I was on a plane. I was running again within weeks. Caught early and handled by a skilled medical team and a surgeon who does this every day, lung cancer is not a death sentence. It is a survivable disease, a fixable problem. If the pope keeps his November trip to South America, he will board that plane about as far out from surgery as I was.
马克·西格尔医生：教皇利奥的肺癌手术将现代医学与信仰并置 我在这周与天主教朋友的短信交流中看到的忧郁是错位的。美国人应该担心的事情完全是另一回事。教皇的癌症是在一次常规体检中被发现的。我的癌症是因为我自费做了一次没人建议的扫描才被发现的。大多数美国人两者都没有获得。
DR MARC SIEGEL: POPE LEO'S LUNG SURGERY PUTS MODERN MEDICINE ALONGSIDE FAITH So the gloom I see in my text threads with Catholic friends this week is misplaced. What should worry Americans is something else entirely. The pope's cancer was found during a routine checkup. Mine was found because I paid for a scan no one recommended. Most Americans get neither.
肺癌是美国癌症死亡的首要原因，也是治疗成本最高的癌症之一，因为它通常是在晚期才被发现。目前的指南仅建议50至80岁且有重度吸烟史的成人进行筛查。符合条件的人中，不到五分之一曾接受过检查。而近三分之二被诊断出肺癌的人根本就不符合筛查条件。我就是其中之一。
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the United States and one of the most expensive cancers to treat, because it is usually found late. Current guidelines recommend screening only for adults ages 50 to 80 with a heavy smoking history. Fewer than one in five people who qualify ever get the scan. And nearly two-thirds of people diagnosed with lung cancer would not have qualified at all. I am one of them.
教皇利奥的肺部肿瘤引发了人们对非吸烟者肺癌风险的质疑。诊断时的阶段是预测生存率和费用的最强因素。若在I期发现，五年生存率可超过90%。然而，大多数病例仍在疾病已扩散后才被发现，此时治愈性治疗的可能性变得渺茫。
POPE LEO'S LUNG TUMOR RAISES QUESTIONS ABOUT CANCER RISK FOR NONSMOKERS Stage at diagnosis is the strongest predictor of both survival and cost. Found at stage I, five-year survival can exceed 90%. Yet most cases are still found after the disease has spread, when curative treatment becomes unlikely.
解决方案已经摆上桌面。《通过识别美国人风险来拯救健康法案》（SHIRA法案）是一份目前在白宫、卫生与公众服务部以及国会流传的草案法案，该法案将使肺癌筛查在医保下对患者免费 — — 不收取共付额，也不收取免赔额。它将覆盖曾接触过燃烧坑的退伍军人，为癌症幸存者及有家族病史者保证首次筛查，并要求医保现代化“高风险”人群的认定标准，使像我这样的从不吸烟者不再被忽视。
There is a fix on the table. The Saving Health by Identifying Risk for Americans (SHIRA) Act, a draft bill now circulating in the White House, HHS and Congress, would make lung cancer screening free to the patient under Medicare — no copay, no deductible. It would cover veterans exposed to burn pits, guarantee a first scan to cancer survivors and those with a family history, and require Medicare to modernize who counts as "high risk" so that never-smokers, like me, stop being invisible.
该法案还将建立一条通往40岁以后基于年龄筛查的道路，就像我们目前对乳腺癌和结直肠癌所做的那样。
It builds a path toward age-based screening after 40, the way we already screen for breast and colorectal cancer.
点击此处阅读更多福克斯新闻观点。我很幸运。一次预防性扫描、一位坚持的朋友和父亲，以及早期诊断，让我拥有了否则可能没有的未来。教皇也很幸运：一次常规检查在他出现任何感觉之前就发现了他的癌症。运气不应决定谁能战胜肺癌。筛查政策才应如此。
CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINION I was fortunate. A preventive scan, a persistent friend and father, and an early diagnosis gave me a future I might not otherwise have had. The pope was fortunate too: a routine check found his cancer before he felt a thing. Luck should not decide who survives lung cancer. Screening policy should.
我这周一直在为教皇祈祷，我也充满信心。我希望每个美国人都能像他一样，有同样的理由充满信心。
I am praying for the pope this week, and I am confident. I would like every American to have the same reason for confidence he does.