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Found something else following Prostate treatment.
Not a fan of the monarchy, but I wish him all the best.
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Same here.
Is it normal to scan tissue removed for benign growth to check for cancer? Makes sense if it is.
Probably an incidental finding on the MRI scan done to look at the prostate.
It is.
He's released a statement to stop speculation. Cue the Beeb speculating for the next bloody hour!
Very sad for Chas, but being slightly cynical….
watch the government try and smuggle out loads of bad news while the countries fawning, cap-doffing media rattle on and on and on about it, keeping us endlessly informed of every single minute development as if nobody had ever had cancer before
It’s been the entire 6 o clock news. It’s like we’re living in a medieval fiefdom
That sucks, no matter who you are.
Today was 23 years since my mum passed away from the big C.
Not bowl cancer but did notice when he came out of hospital his suit was way too big for him, obviously lost weight rapidly
Probably an incidental finding on the MRI scan done to look at the prostate.
Hopefully it's a primary rather than a secondary item, and they've caught it early if it was symptomless.
Can't cope with another Coronation!
What is bowl cancer?
I wish him a full and speedy recovery.
My Dad died 32 years ago of carcinomatosis which developed from stomach cancer.
Why are they dancing around what the diagnosis actually is? Anyway - lucky for him he got to see a specialist quicker than me.
I'm guessing they may be trying a couple of rounds of something to see how responsive it is.
He’s released a statement to stop speculation. Cue the Beeb speculating for the next bloody hour!
Had to be his bestie Nicolas Witch Hole bleating on about it too 😒
watch the government try and smuggle out loads of bad news while the countries fawning, cap-doffing media rattle on and on and on about it, keeping us endlessly informed of every single minute development as if nobody had ever had cancer before
100%…go go go
Best of luck to him, i dont need another two state "occasions" in my lifetime.
That’s a shame, oh well, never mind.
I'm sure he’ll be well cared rather than enter into the NHS postcode lottery.
Nicholas Witch Hole had me reaching for the sick bag..🤮🤮
Charles will have enjoyed screwing up Witchell's holiday in Hong Kong with this announcement, though.
Best of luck to him, i dont need another two state “occasions” in my lifetime.
Wonder if BC will ban everyone from cycling again?
Another coronation/ bank holiday will bankrupt the UK surely! Get well soon though. Not nice for anyone and their family regardless of what you happened to be born into.
My grandad has prostate cancer and my younger sister has terminal thymus cancer. It's shit. I wish him, his family and everyone else suffering from cancer all the best.
I have some sympathy because my dad went into hospital for his second op for benign prostatic hyperplasia about 6 months ago and whilst undergoing that treatment they found cancerous cells in his bladder. A scrape didn't deal with it so he had his bladder removed before Christmas. He's quite well now but the post-op recovery was a bumpy road (including a period where they managed to not feed him whilst in hospital and then not discharge him because he wasn't passing solids, and then later a blue light into hospital for a secondary infection). I'm not a royalist but I hope he doesn't suffer.
Crap news for anyone, only upside is that this tends to lead to an uptick in people get checked out due to the coverage
downside is that the daily heil will try and blame harry and Meghan in 3-2-1....
You wait all these years for a king to come along and then......
Good luck to him and everyone else whose had to hear that they have cancer today, and for everyone is who is facing it
Very sad for Chas, but being slightly cynical….
Nothing new there.
It’s been the entire 6 o clock news. It’s like we’re living in a medieval fiefdom
Other channels, streaming services and things to do are also available.
It's pretty shit and I wish him and family well.
**** cancer! Doesn’t matter who you are, cancer is shit. He’s very lucky to have probably some of the best private health care there is. Will likely give him better odds than most.
Wonder if BC will ban everyone from cycling again?
Reported that all Centre Parcs resorts are on standby for lockdown.
Just goes to show that cancer really doesn’t give a crap who you are..horrible disease
I wish him all the best
Have they blamed it on Megan yet?
As they would take bloods I’d guess at a form of blood cancer/myelodysplastic syndrome, hope not for his sake as my dad got diagnosed with it 1 week after retiring at the age of 69 back in 2018, he died 4 months later. Its most common in adults over the age of 70
My first thought was why does the world have to know his very private medical condition and then I read the final paragraph of the press release and I can understand the motive.
I still think it is harsh that he is forced to share something so private and personal though. Despite believing that the monarchy has no role in a genuine democracy.
Wonder if BC will ban everyone from cycling again?
Like they didn’t do last time?
Hope he makes a full recover.
**** cancer.
I still think it is harsh that he is forced to share something so private and personal though.
Doubt it was forced.
My best mate also had cancer surgery today, at 38, having lost her mum to cancer when she was 3, and her Dad to cancer whilst pregnant with her first child. Whatever people think to the Royal Family - cancer can f***ing do one. Thinking of him and his family, who at this moment are just people just like me and my friend - and my day has been shit.
Like they didn’t do last time?
But they read the room very badly and got a spanking for it.
I find myself wishing him the very best. Mostly, because I'm human and despite my dislike of the office he elects to hold and something will get him eventually, needless suffering is never nice (though I make an exception for Trump). But a bit of me also wishes him well because I dread the news being full of it, especially if it acts as a distraction in arguably the world's most important year for democracy. That would be a real irony.
His homeopath will sort him out
Can’t cope with another Coronation!
Depends if the dickhaeds at British Cycling try to ban cycling again that day.
He'll have the instant appointment that members of the public will never get, and while we can all agree cancer is bad, it is much worse when you need to go through an underfunded nhs in the hope you get an appointment and treatment before the disease has caused irreparable damage.
Underfunded because the rich avoid paying tax.Like the Royal Family for instance.
Couldn’t give a toss about him or any of our murderous,tax avoiding,snobby ruling class.They are the epitome of everything that’s awful about this country.
Tax avoiding and snobby, yes. Murderous and ruling? You're a hundred years or more out of date.
The royals, for all their many faults, are not responsible for the state this country is in or the deaths resulting from it. Get rid of the people who are first, then we can sort out the royals.
They provide a useful smokescreen for the real tax avoiding grifters ****ing the rest of us.
Couldn’t give a toss about him or any of our murderous,tax avoiding,snobby ruling class.They are the epitome of everything that’s awful about this country.
For a long time I've thought it was the bile, hatred and lack of humanity spouted by individuals and institutions. Really. It irks me to see comments like this on this website, feels like decades ago, not a couple of years since we were talking about how great it was to be nice to everyone.
It's not just the right that promotes divisiveness and hatred.
Ms Morrissette will require a new line about waiting 70 years to do the job.
From a human point of view no one deserves cancer and I hope he makes a recovery.
Paraphrasing what I've said in previous threads, I'm instinctively anti-monarchy as an institution but struggle to summon up any direct antipathy towards Charles himself, unlike some other members of his family he just seems like a fairly decent old boy.
Hope he pulls through O.K.
Couldn’t give a toss about him or any of our murderous,tax avoiding,snobby ruling class.They are the epitome of everything that’s awful about this country.
I’d put lack of empathy to humans above any of those claims is a problem of some in this country.
he seems a solidly decent chap, and cancer sucks, for the individual, and those around them, regardless of 'badge'.
I love the way he comes across in normal life :
hope he pulls through.
Came here to see if the usual suspects were gleefully lining up to be sociopathic c**ts about an old bloke with a family who has been diagnosed with a life-threatening illness. Was mostly unsurprised.
Wanting to abolish the monarchy is one thing, getting your rocks off because one of them has cancer says more about you than them I'm afraid. I have no love for royalty but I'd rather have that than people who take joy from others having potentially fatal illnesses.
He’ll have the instant appointment that members of the public will never get, and while we can all agree cancer is bad, it is much worse when you need to go through an underfunded nhs in the hope you get an appointment and treatment before the disease has caused irreparable damage.
I think I agree. I know plenty of other people too who have taken the kind step and had their cancer treatment privately which eases up the pressure on the NHS. One of my mates Dads is still alive as he received private chemo regime not available on the NHS. He wasnt a member of the royal family so I guess we cant slag him off, he was just lucky his company had private health.
What we need as I am sure you will agree is for us all to pay more in taxes to prop up the failing NHS.
Depending on the type of cancer, and its severity, at some point he may well need to access NHS services. I imagine he possibly will jump the que at that point, but whether you agree with it or not he is part of the hierarchy of how this country runs. We maybe should stop treating people from over seas too who have come from conflict areas and receive immediate care in our hospitals jumping all queues.
Couldn’t give a toss about him or any of our murderous,tax avoiding,snobby ruling class.They are the epitome of everything that’s awful about this country.
If you think this country is that bad, why dont you go and live some where like Iran or Iraq, or Palestine or maybe Russia is more to your political thinking comrade ?
Personally I think good on him for making it public. Yes even the King has now had a doctor stick a finger up his arse.
I’m pleased to see Sunak has recognised the importance of early diagnosis and will trust he will ensure the same for everyone.
He’ll have the instant appointment that members of the public will never get, and while we can all agree cancer is bad, it is much worse when you need to go through an underfunded nhs
Not really true though is it?
Some people spend money on expensive meals, overpriced bikes, sky TV, etc while others choose to pay for private health care or work for a company that offers it (my 23yo daughter for example) - it's 'open' to anyone allowing them to get a pretty much instant appointment with an oncologist with no 'need' for the NHS.
A good friend of mine is an oncology consultant and she sometimes regrets* her career choice as there's very little money in private oncology as the NHS cancer service is so good.
* Not really, she loves it.
We maybe should stop treating people from over seas too who have come from conflict areas and receive immediate care in our hospitals jumping all queues.
There's a lot to unpick here, isn't there.
he was just lucky his company had private health.<br /><br />
and that they were prepared to fund it. Having worked in private healthcare the costs are extortionate especially the drugs as they are rightly bought on the open market and not at the nhs rates
Like the Royal Family for instance.
Wrong - the Queen and the King both paid/pay income tax, VAT, etc unlike a huge number of other people.
We maybe should stop treating people from over seas too who have come from conflict areas and receive immediate care in our hospitals jumping all queues.
Except they don’t.
Having sat in a dimly lit room in the London clinic (same hospital treating Charles) and watched my kid brother slip away as a result of bowel cancer i wouldn't wish it on anyone.
I'm no massive royalist but i hope the old boy pulls through and has a few more years with his grandkids.
I just find it odd that they announce 'treatment for cancer' as if it's a single disease. There's hundreds of types of cancer and thousands of pathways of treatment, so a vague announcement of just 'cancer' is unhelpful, but guess it's a case of saying the bare minimum to account for lack of public visibility.
As for treatment. It's not simply about private/ queue jumping/ preferential treatment.
I saw my GP with a dodgy stomach and some odd symptoms, was in a scanner the next day and at a special consultant within days. Which is the norm around here it seems (S.Oxfordshire), so it really is a postcode lottery
Except they don’t.
I can assure you they do. I not necessarily countries that we have decided to drop a few bombs on.
Well, that was certainly some words.
We maybe should stop treating people from over seas too who have come from conflict areas and receive immediate care in our hospitals jumping all queues.
That's the UK for you, always welcoming refugees from warzones with open arms. If they can find a boat to carry them across the Channel.
Migrants face annual £1,000 NHS healthcare surcharge as bill rises 66%
I always wonder the cause as it is still unclear where it originates from
@chewk are you genuinely asking what causes cancer? It’s damage to our DNA that then causes cells to replicate uncontrollably. Our DNA is constantly being replicated and every-time that happens there’s an opportunity for errors to happen, which if you are unlucky can be the right errors to cause cancer, either now or in the future. Sometimes you are born with that DNA already there and it just needs switched on by some external influence. Sometimes luck, environmental factors, our own bodies etc do the damage for us. It sometimes seems like there’s more cancer around than there used to be - in reality we’ve got better at treating the other things that kill us so it’s more likely you live long enough to get cancer.
and that they were prepared to fund it. Having worked in private healthcare the costs are extortionate especially the drugs as they are rightly bought on the open market and not at the nhs rates
mmm… private hospitals are able to recoup VAT on drug purchases which the NHS cannot. Whilst vat for the NHS is circular back into government funds it’s ironic that it costs an NHS hospital more to buy drugs than private because of this. Then there’s nhs procurement which definitely does not always do the best job of negotiating the best price. The reality is highly specialised cancer drugs are really expensive because relatively few people will ever receive that drug, it cost loads to develop and it may be life or death. If you are the patient (or their family) getting £40K of drugs and other treatment to add 6-12 months to your life seems a reasonable request. If you are sitting in a&e you might think the money would be better spent elsewhere. If you are in health education you might think that would stop a lot of costs in 10-20 years time…. No easy answers without infinite funds!
It sometimes seems like there’s more cancer around than there used to be – in reality we’ve got better at treating the other things that kill us so it’s more likely you live long enough to get cancer.
I suspect that there's a correlation between recorded incidences and an ability to detect it also. If we're better at spotting it then ipso facto we're going to see more cases.
We maybe should stop treating people from over seas
Most of the people that have treated me in hospital over the last 1 1/2 years have been from overseas. Is that what your mean?
We maybe should stop treating people from over seas<br />Most of the people that have treated me in hospital over the last 1 1/2 years have been from overseas. Is that what your mean
I assumed that this remark was just a humorous barbed comment at the royal family being a bunch of German / Greek immigrants and getting prioritised, the stuff of daily fail nightmares , rather than any deep racist trope.
A casual look at enquiries coming in this morning and I can see some from men asking about the symptoms of enlarged prostrates. Now, it's pretty much standard for 'blokes of a certain age' to eventually get around to sending in that enquiry so I'm not making any claims that news about Charlie has had an effect. But, if Charlie (and people like him) can be public about their diagnosis and treatment, then maybe it will encourage some guys to send that enquiry sooner rather than later, and maybe for them it'll not be cancer, but one of the pre-cancerous states, or benign prostatic hyperplasia, and they'll be treated before it comes to things like radiotherapy, or before, god forbid, radiotherapy is no longer going to be effective and they're looking at more severe treatments.
20 years ago, this would've been a state secret, that its public now is progress, and I think that's a good thing.
I assumed that this remark was just a humorous barbed comment at the royal family being a bunch of German / Greek immigrants
From "conflict areas"?
From “conflict areas”?
Phil the Greek fled a post-war military coup iirc. Seems like a conflict area to me.
Ah. Very cryptic!
Btw Philip married Mrs Windsor 20 years before the Greek coup.
I can assure you they do<br /><br />
You can’t assure me at all as they don’t jump the queues. Do we treat them? Yes as most of us aren’t a bunch of ****s who have an issue with foreign folk.
Drac - you are making a lot of assumptions there.
It happens fairly regularly maybe you just in your line of work dont see it.
People been brought in to the UK at request of the government, operated on and then they return to their county (not refugees, not asylum seekers). Yes needy people, but are they more needy than the next person who has been waiting on a list for months and been paying uk taxes?.
My point is its not only the super rich that get to jump the list
Btw Philip married Mrs Windsor 20 years before the Greek coup.
Right bloke, wrong coup;
“ Born sixth in line to the Greek throne on June 10, 1921, Philip — then known as Prince Philippos of Greece and Denmark — was forced to flee his homeland at the age of 18 months following a military uprising against his uncle, King Constantine”
I assumed that this remark was just a humorous barbed comment at the royal family being a bunch of German / Greek immigrants and getting prioritised, the stuff of daily fail nightmares , rather than any deep racist trope.
I inferred quite the opposite.
Tricksy thing, text-based communication. Maybe the poster would care to clarify?
It happens fairly regularly maybe you just in your line of work dont see it.
People been brought in to the UK at request of the government, operated on and then they return to their county
Cross-posting, sorry.
Would you mind showing your working here?
Daily Mail said so.
People been brought in to the UK at request of the government, operated on and then they return to their county
Oh mean the very tiny few where the UK shows some humanity to treat them? Those ones yeah?
No, they don’t jump the queue either.