Charles cancer update

[PrettyFlyforaMaiTai]

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

There's several cancers that older people get that are effectively chronic conditions rather than something that the docs aim to cure. It's not terribly surprising. If it's not a curable type it makes sense he hasn't named it as well, people will have him one foot in the grave for years when he's essentially pretty healthy.

It was our understanding he has advanced pancreatic cancer.

Yea I think if you've been through the cancer journey you read the wording a lot deeper.

My mums was managed. But it was never curable. Managed with chemo for a number of years until it stopped working.

That might be the case for solid tumour cancers, where the aim of treatment is to eradicate/cure

But it’s not the case for many blood cancers (and possibly not for any others where the aim is to contain as essentially harmless though present ie aim is not eradication)

My Grandad had prostrate cancer, diagnosed in his 70s, died aged 96. He had medication for it and it was just managed'. My guess is KC has that - he's seems to be functioning fine in normal life as did my Grandad

@Petrasings have you ever seen anyone with pancreatic cancer?? He most definitely does not. It is one of the most debilitating things that can happen to the human body. It has a less than 5 perfent 1 year survival rate. Absolutely nobody looks the same thus far in as they did pre-diagnosis. Doesn’t be so stupid.

Most blood cancers are also terminal - although there is hope for new treatments now.

Whose understanding? And on what basis? Do you have inside info?

Surely advanced pancreatic cancer is not a managed condition- it's one of the most dangerous types of cancer.

Pancreatic cancer has an incredibly high mortality rate. Very unlikely.

It'll be something slow-moving that can be managed to the point where the person quote possibly l dies with it and not of it.

There’s management - which is treatment that can be done less invasively in some kinds of cancer - medication for prostate cancer, removal of BCCs/melanomas in skin cancer. This would seem to be what they are referring to given he seems well and has not obviously deteriorated since diagnosis.

Then there’s what’s known as conservative management. This is treatment that is done to make you comfortable when your cancer is incurable, and there’s no merit to aggressive or invasive treatments.

Are you always so astonishingly rude? We were told it was pancreatic yes.

we dont know the type of cancer, nor will we

They have good inhibitor drugs for the chronic leukaemias and some lymphomas and myelomas, plus much better treatment options for the more aggressive types.

For some, the 5 year survival rate has gone from less than 10% to well over 90% in the last 30 years.

@Petrasings By whom? You have absolutely no foundation for it and it is really ignorant to make baseless comments about the most serious and aggressive form of cancer. What else would one call that except stupid?

Who is ‘we’ and who did the telling?

He wouldn't still be here if that was the case. Zero chance he has pancreatic cancer!

Prostate not prostrate!!

@Petrasings oh and fyi your comment about blood cancers is also stupid and inaccurate.

@EdithWeston Boris Johnson did write in his memoir that Queen Elizabeth had a bone cancer for some years before death.

(Giles Brandreth may also have written something about a blood cancer)

Neither had ever been officially reported though

I highly doubt it, he's in pretty good health.

Hardly. If he did he'd have been far sicker and died within weeks of diagnosis.

I was thinking bladder cancer but I’m not a medic.

No-one was told that, unless you’re referring to X gossip.

I thought maybe cancer of the bladder? I think more prevalent in men than women? My father’s friend had it and had to have chemo ‘washes’ through his bladder periodically, kept it at bay for years. Probably shouldn’t speculate but that’s my thoughts.