Vatican denies claims Pope has curable brain tumour

The Vatican spokesman, the Rev Federico Lombardi, said the report in the National Daily was “completely unfounded and seriously irresponsible and not worthy of attention.”
Citing unnamed nursing sources, the National Daily said the 78-year-old P{ope had travelled by helicopter to the San Rossore di Barbaricina clinic near Pisa in recent months to see a Japanese brain cancer specialist, Dr Takanori Fukishima.