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

@PrettyFlyforaMaiTai This isn't a new announcement.

It's a link to Sky where they are repeating what was said ages ago, more or less.
They say it's a 'palace source' - which is hardly better than rumour.

I don't know why you posted this.

I posted here without reading your link.
I assumed it was headline news even though there is nothing today on the BBC or in the papers.

Oh I didn't realise they had specifically said he doesn't have that one... X

I agree, she looks awful, very haggard.

It was confirmed early on that he did not have prostate cancer. He had an enlarged prostate and treatment for that revealed whatever it is he currently has. I always thought it was probably more serious than they have let on. He most definitely does not have pancreatic cancer as it is very unlikely he'd be here or indeed look as well as he currently does. I have a friend who has, thus far, survived operable early stage pancreatic cancer but he is an absolute shadow of his former self physically.

When my mother had stage 4 cancer, they described her treatment as "management" as she was not curable. She had palliative chemotherapy which does not have the same ravaging effects as some, but not all, curative treatments.

Sadly, I fear the King is a stage 4 patient but I hope that his condition can be managed for some time to come.

Who’s we? And by whom? Pancreatic cancer is the last type of cancer I’d have suspected.

They should just be open and honest

as these types of statements just cause people to speculate and talknbabiut it more and more

You chose to click on the thread, read it, and reply.

I don't believe revealing what type of cancer Charles and Kate have would reduce speculation. The speculation would just become more focused and move from what type of cancer they've got to how advanced it is/what treatment they are having/what the prognosis is/likelihood of occurrence. And above all, if/when they might die from it.

People may be frustrated or even annoyed at not being given specifics, but surely Charles and Kate have a right to some degree of privacy over their own health?

Commenting on it is probably a good start

There have also been some horrible comments about Kate's appearance. I don't think people who haven't had cancer realise the toll that treatment takes on you (I have had breast cancer). My appearance definitely changed and while I have recovered well, it definitely made a difference to my skin etc and I feel that I possibly looked older for a while. I personally feel that she looks amazing given what she's been through. It's really unkind to comment on her appearance while her body is recovering from really harsh treatment.

Hear hear!

My DH had/ has a blood cancer which required incredibly invasive and risky treatment ( stem cell transplant). He was given a 50% chance of surviving the treatment. You'd certainly know if someone had this!

Very well said!
The absolute downplaying of prostate cancer as almost something and nothing drives me mad.
Having watched my fit and healthy DH die a horrific death from the disease in his 50’s, 3 years after diagnosis I can confirm it is not a good cancer.

QEll's cancer type was reported in the news shortly after her death.

Any cancer can be horrific sadly. The vast majority of prostate cancer cases aren't fatal, many aren't even treated at first. The proportion of people with a prostate cancer diagnosis who ultimately die from it is much lower than many (most?) cancers. If I had to roll the dice for one of my relatives and pick a cancer, prostate would be up there when you consider the horrors of something like oesophageal or pancreatic. That's all people mean.

Any advanced cancer will be a painful, horrific experience unfortunately. That's a whole other ballgame.

Completely agree with this. They're screwed re speculation whatever they do, may as well keep it as vague as possible.

This is the one no one has mentioned but...it was found when doing prostate surgery which involves an instrument that looks in the bladder so I think something could have been found here. Also bladder cancer can be treated with regular instillations of chemotherapy directly into the bladder if it is localised.

Pancreatic would be at the bottom of my list as it's survival rate is abysmal.

Myeloma was mentioned for the late queen's cancer.

Once someone has cancer, there is never an announcement of being 'cured'.
Even after 5 years the term is ' in remission' and NED (no evidence of disease.)

It was reported a few days after her death. She had been diagnosed with multiple myeloma two years before her death.

It may not have been the direct cause of her death but the cancer type was reported.

No it wasn’t! There was a photo of her official death certificate, listing only “old age”!

On what basis?

No it wasn't! I'd be very interested to see which news article showed that( and I mean reputable such as BBC) , not idle gossip in Hello magazine for example.

The comments about Kate's appearance are awful. Remember her cancer was found incidentally during some pretty major surgery - she could have been ill for years and then cancer treatment on top. She looks remarkably well to me (not that her appearance matters anyway).

Someone ill informed confidently said it's prostate cancer, and pancreatic also begins with P, I'm guessing.

I am sure it's already been said but there are some forms of cancer which can't be "cured" but are managed like a chronic illness - sometimes for years, sometimes for decades. "Managed" often doesn't mean a prognosis of months. I think some forms of leukaemia might be like that?