Buckingham Palace issues major King Charles cancer update as treatment continues
Buckingham Palace announced in February that King Charles had been diagnosed with cancer and was beginning a course of treatment.
The King's cancer treatment will continue into next year, it has been confirmed ahead of Christmas. Buckingham Palace announced in February that King Charles had been diagnosed with cancer and was beginning a course of treatment.
Palace sources tell Sky News his treatment has been "moving in a positive direction". Palace sources have said "his treatment has been moving in a positive direction and as a managed condition the treatment cycle will continue into next year".
The monarch, who announced in February he had been diagnosed with a form of cancer, has never named what type. It is believed the King 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.
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His treatment timetable and type remains unconfirmed, too. Dame Laura Lee, chief executive of the cancer support charity Maggie's - of which Queen Camilla is patron - said: "It's very common for treatment to be ongoing for very long periods of time, as is the treatment that the Princess of Wales went through, which is an intense period of treatment over a year, and then it comes to a point where it's on an end, and she's on that recovery from some of the impacts of her treatment.
"So we've got immunotherapy, chemotherapy, surgery, hormone therapy. There are all sorts of different treatment modalities. And so it's not surprising at all." She added: "What we've heard from our centre visitors, it's been good that they haven't just shone a light on one specific cancer type, but they've shone a light on cancer as a whole, and that there's varying treatment and varying impacts and varying different ways of navigating the challenges that cancer bring.
"And I think that approach has been much more effective and positive for the cancer community. I know firsthand that everyone is so grateful to them for doing that."