Surgeons Remove Cardinal’s Kidney
Surgeons took out a cancerous kidney from Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, 67, on Monday, along with a golf-ball-sized mass on his pancreas that they said might also be malignant.
“For the moment the news is good,” said Dr. Gerard V. Aranha, the chief surgeon. “Even if it was cancerous, it was small and contained.”
Doctors also removed parts of Bernardin’s stomach, small intestine, bile duct and lymph nodes. They found a small benign tumor on Bernardin’s liver and removed it. “We’re still not sure if there was pancreatic cancer, so the prognosis is uncertain,” Aranha said.
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