King Charles reveals his cancer treatment can be scaled back to ‘precautionary’ in the New Year.

Thank you Allira I will pass that on to my DD.
There is a lot of work going on behind the scenes to help people with this awful disease.
My DH was finally diagnosed almost 30 years ago. He saw many doctors who failed to recognise the symptoms. Prostate cancer is being caught much earlier and I know some men who have been cured in the last few years.

FGT

AGAA4 Thank you to your DD and all those working on vital research and to all those volunteers who agree to go on the trials too.

FGT.

I think the NHS can sadly be something of a post code lottery.
We have the Christie (fabulous) 20 minutes up the A roads. And a contact number for the Crisis Line which we have needed 3 times this year with my husband being 999 admissions.

Cancer scares everyone. It takes its toll in so many ways.

That's awful Primrose. Dreadful. I can see we've been lucky reading some posts. I am sitting in a hospital waiting room at the moment (again). DH is having a procedure on his eye. We arrived early, they have called him on early. He got a cancellation so once again, lucky.

That’s just terrible Primrose53 tho can’t say am surprised!

Oreo my husband finally went to hospital 2 days ago to have a filter removed. It was put in following his stroke Nov 24 and should have been removed after a couple of months. We have spent most of this past year chasing up an appointment and patients do not need to be doing this.

Whitewavemark2

I’m watching the following television programme.

You can’t put a price on the NHS

Oh I think you can!
And when old people are left on trolleys in draughty corridors with no dignity or privacy and operations are cancelled for the third time, and there’s over a year to wait to even get to see a consultant once referred, then it’s hard to see that we get value for money.
King Charles will have had the best of private care that money can buy, for anything, not just cancer.

I understand FGT I had eighteen months of watching my DH struggle trying to fight the cancer. It does feel lonely.
Glad to hear King Charles is doing well.
My DD works at the Christie hospital in the research part. She cares for people on the trials. Those people who the NHS can no longer help agree to undertake new treatments.

They have had successes and new treatments become available through research.

So sorry FGT

Fgt💐

KC said “Hard work and positive thinking”
Hmm.
That bit is a hard stone to swallow.

My husband is 4 years younger than KC and is so weak and fatigued with chemotherapy he doesn’t get dressed most days it’s too much of an effort and he is not a lazy man.

I suppose there are so many variables. Such as ‘what stage’ for example. My husband has Stage IV with metastases. Treatment is brutal it has to be.

Perhaps (and we will never know) KC is Stage I or II? Caught earlier? More gentle chemo albeit administered weekly? A top oncologist on speed dial for any anxieties?

There is no way my husband could dress up in uniform, medals and regalia, have a late dinner with dignitaries, get on a flight for example.

And “hard work”? It honestly floors my husband to the extent that he sleeps for hours during the day. It’s a lonely life, sitting quietly, watching him. And worrying.

Camilla won’t know the half of it.

But does it make me bitter? Of course not. Taking away someone else’s joy isn’t going to improve our situation one bit so I’m very happy for KC and all his family this Christmas.

I am delighted for him. I have a family member working in the field of Cancer Research and he is always saying how important early diagnosis can be. The King mentioning it may just spur on those who are worrying about their health but are not seeing their GP.

Kate1949

Oops. Should read the hoped for screening programme for prostate cancer won't happen.

I think that is a huge mistake.

So very pleased for King Charles, that must be an enormous relief to him and his family.

There will be few people whose lives have not been touched by cancer, if not themselves, then a loved one and early screening can give hope.

Oops. Should read the hoped for screening programme for prostate cancer won't happen.

It also looks as though the hoped for screening programme for prostate cancer cancer. Shame. It's the most prolific cancer in men.

I wish the King well but he has had the very best treatment and care. No waiting for appointments, no worrying about caring for other family members, no concern about transport or fuel costs, obviously a private room and the most skilled staff etc etc.

Just a reminder that screening is not available for pancreatic cancer which is the deadliest cancer.

Good news… thanks for the link Lemsip

Thank you Louisa. That explains it then.

Kate1949

The King's message will hopefully encourage more people to get screened and be of some comfort to sufferers and their families. My husband, who is in remission 🤞 from prostate cancer, says it would help more if he had said what type of cancer he has. His choice of course. Cancer is certainly a rough ride.

Apparently the king has chosen not to disclose as he feels its more helpful to the cancer community than mentioning a specific cancer....which would then overshadow all the other types of cancer

Thank you Smileless. 11 years now after a tough time as many on here will know.

Wonderful news about the King and your DH too Kate.

The King's message will hopefully encourage more people to get screened and be of some comfort to sufferers and their families. My husband, who is in remission 🤞 from prostate cancer, says it would help more if he had said what type of cancer he has. His choice of course. Cancer is certainly a rough ride.

Thank you lemsip. Kind of you to provide the link.
(Love the name btw!)

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c14vvv8pnpmo

the Kings message.