Charles cancer update

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Charles’ cancer treatment will continue into next year

”his treatment has been moving in a positive direction and as a managed condition the treatment cycle will continue into next year" according to palace sources.

I don’t mean to be a negative Nelly but this doesn’t seem as positive as they’re trying to make out.

news.sky.com/story/kings-cancer-treatment-will-continue-into-next-year-sky-news-understands-13276684

Whilst perfectly acceptable to keep the personal private, this remark ‘he has deliberately not confirmed the type of cancer he is being treated for so he doesn’t detract from the significance of other forms of the illness’, does this not suggest very treatable/not a ‘bad’ cancer?

How’d you figure that out?

Thanks for posting, OP. I don't know enough about it to judge but am interested that he is still being treated. There was also a link on that page that said W & K missed the Buckingham Palace lunch which I think is the first time since they married.

There was also a link on that page that said W & K missed the Buckingham Palace lunch which I think is the first time since they married.

There is a lot of illness circulating at the moment. I wondered if, given her immune system might be suppressed folliwing her treatment, Catherine didn't want to run the risk of being poorly over Christmas.

Prostate cancers can be extremely slow growing, if it's managed well people generally die 'with' prostate cancer, not 'of' it. I'm assuming it's something like that. Maybe a bit of ongoing radio/chemo therapy and regular checks.

I’d hazard a guess at the same

Describing his cancer as a 'managed condition' suggests it's not something that's going to be cured.

I thought it was prostate cancer? If you have to get cancer it’s tbe best one as extremely slow growing, and v responsive to hormonal treatments, but these do take longer than chemo.

If Prostrate would diagnosing cancer type help re: good publicity re: fund raising, raising awareness?

My guess is non Hodgkins lyphoma FWIW, ? same as his Mum. Very managable with immuno- therapy.

To add he says he wants to ‘help others’ by going public with diagnosis but surely there’s only true & real power in that if he discloses type?

It was reported very early on that it wasn't prostrate cancer

@Neurodiversitydoctor how do we know she had this type of cancer?

I thought at the time the Kings illness was first revealed, it was a benign prostate condition, and the cancer was something else discovered at the time of the operation.

So not prostate - because if it had been that, as it was known he’d had prostate issues (announced to spread awareness) then there’s no reason to hide if it proved to be cancer.

Other cancers can be managed so that they are chronic conditions that are not life-threatening; various blood cancers - including the bone marrow cancer that one source said was something ER II had, but was living with - sprang to mind, but I’ve no idea what the treatment (initial stabilisation and long term control) would be like. Are there others?

I read somewhere that knocking back to a manageable chronic condition was an aim in the development of treatments of some cancers. Can’t remember which though.

My dad has cancer at the moment, a bad one (mesothelioma) but they’ve told him it isn’t curable but is manageable for a “number of years” with immunotherapy and he is the same age as the King. I’m not saying the king has this (I doubt he worked with asbestos after all) but I’m just saying that even the most serious cancer can be managed for some time with treatment. His immunotherapy also continues for a while and he won’t lose his hair, plus he has no side effects so maybe the king is having this type of treatment.

The Queen had NH Lymphoma? Since when? Never heard this.

I suspect it’s an either a rare one or one that isn’t curable. Friend had a ‘managed cancer’ having chemo regularly but it was always not curable.

edit: forgot to add ‘dad’ it was friends dad not friend & went on for several years so definitely manageable. Died in his late 80’s.

I don't think it's ever been officially reported whether Queen Elizabeth had a specific cancer. Wasn't it Boris Johnson who wrote something about bone cancer? But it wasn't officially reported.

On the other hand, when King Charles had prostate treatment, it was reported after that the cancer which was discovered wasn't prostate

The management is the treatment, if it is one that can, after initial response had led to good suppression, be maintained by inhibitor drugs

‘Managed ‘ in cancer terms means a terminal diagnosis.

We have been through this three times with our family members, and it was used by all three consultants as a term.

Manageable and with treatment cycles continuing into next year makes me think he has a blood cancer such as Myeloma.

prostate cancer doesn’t have treatment cycles usually.

No, it was Giles Brandreth who wrote about bone marrow cancer, which is a form of blood cancer

But that was often shortened to / misunderstood as bone cancer (a completely separate one)

Managed tends to mean not curable, but terminal doesn’t mean he’s going to die soon necessarily.