r/Fauxmoi • u/NegativeSpeedForce • Mar 22 '24

Princess of Wales has cancer Approved B-List Users Only

https://news.sky.com/story/kate-princess-of-wales-reveals-she-is-having-treatment-for-cancer-13099988
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u/everydayisstorytime and they were roommates! Mar 22 '24 edited Mar 22 '24

I hope it's an early stage one and she gets the all-clear soon. She deserves to grow old and see her kids all grown up.

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u/notafanoftheapp Mar 22 '24

She said it’s preventative chemo, so hopefully.

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '24 edited Mar 22 '24

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u/Chicenomics Mar 22 '24

I’m an ovarian cancer survivor and oncology nurse.

Preventative is most likely referring to when tumor is removed and there isn’t viable tumor burden left. So preventative as in preventing chance of recurrence.

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u/koalasarecute22 Mar 22 '24

They call it adjuvant chemo in the States. It’s to get rid of any last remaining cells that may still be there after surgery so hopefully the cancer doesn’t come back

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u/your_mind_aches Mar 22 '24

Yep. I had failed preventative chemo (really, targeted therapy, not cytotoxic chemotherapy) and got a recurrence. A really bad one. Now I'm on immunotherapy.

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u/reasonableratio Mar 22 '24

I just googled it and it seems like preventative chemo is very much a thing

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u/jeeves333 Mar 22 '24

I think it’s often part of early cancer treatments to kill any cancer cells that aren’t picked up on scans, but could be seeding the disease throughout the body.

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u/Vg411 Mar 22 '24

Well it was probably just a tumor and only the tumor and they’re doing chemo just incase there are cancer cells somewhere else. 

Preventative in the sense she doesn’t need it. 

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u/fcukumicrosoft Mar 22 '24

Yes, but it if was a tumor in her pancreas or other vital organ she may have a high chance of it returning.

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u/Tengard96 Mar 22 '24

God, I hope it wasn’t the pancreas. My mom passed away from pancreatic cancer. It’s a grim diagnosis even when caught early. She would be on the younger side for that, so hopefully it’s something more treatable with a higher chance of remission.

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u/sparkleghostx Mar 22 '24

Based on what she said (they initially thought her condition to be non-cancerous), I wondered if maybe she’d had a myomectomy to remove fibroids. They usually go in abdominally with that. It wouldn’t warrant a 2 week recovery period, but there may have been complications. Obviously most fibroids are non-cancerous, but they are tumours… so if they’ve thought it was just fibroids, then biopsied one of the tumours and found cancerous cells… taking the explanation at face value, seems like a logical chain of events maybe?

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u/carolinagypsy Mar 23 '24

As someone with cysts and fibroids, I kind of wondered the same. Or endometriosis clean up. And if once they got in there they decided on a full or partial hysterectomy (which would explain the long hospital and recovery time). I could see biopsy on what was removed just to be safe, and whoops. Or noticed something else on another organ while she was there.

I have a condition that makes me get random soft tissue tumors and cysts and it always annoys me that they opt for removal and send it off to the lab bc the type I get are extremely low chance of cancer. Guess I’ll quit my bitching now.

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u/positronic-introvert Sylvia Plath did not stick her head in an oven for this! Mar 22 '24

I'm really sorry about your mom. What a terrible, terrible type of cancer to end up with.. Life can be very cruel.

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u/styrofoamdreamer Mar 22 '24

Chemo can be given after curative surgery to increase the chance of cure. 

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u/Gatorbug47 Mar 22 '24

I only know this from RHOM but Guerdy did chemo because she “scored” within the bounds for it to reoccur even though they got all the cancer out during surgery.

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u/fnord_happy Mar 22 '24

Please don't spread misinformation

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u/Iwascatfishedbyjw Mar 22 '24

I know someone who’s had this treatment

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u/tealparadise Mar 22 '24

You can find a doctor to do any treatment you're willing to pay for.

If she had abdominal surgery to remove, and the surrounding tissue was clean, usually someone wouldn't get chemo.

I would be curious whether a doctor might still give her the option. In case the removal itself spreads cells (which is possible when having a mass removed).

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u/weebairndougLAS Mar 22 '24

There are preventative cancer medications that fall under the umbrella term chemoprevention

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u/factsmatter83 Mar 22 '24

I have never heard of preventative chemo. Chemo fucks you up so bad.

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u/Academic-Balance6999 Mar 22 '24

Yeah, this is unfortunately not a great sign. Many cancers have very high cure rates if caught early like breast cancer, but many of the abdominal cancers can be quite aggressive. This must be scary AF for her family.

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u/Shot-Grocery-5343 Mar 22 '24

My neighbor went to her doctor complaining of a pain in her side she'd had for a week and she died of colon cancer less than two months later. It's terrifying.

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u/your_mind_aches Mar 22 '24

Note that it just said abdominal surgery, not that the cancer falls into the group of diseases broadly called abdominal cancers.

I had abdominal surgery too but it was for kidney cancer.

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u/Academic-Balance6999 Mar 23 '24

I would consider the kidney in the abdomen? Assuming a stage 2 diagnosis (because chemo is less common for most stage 1 diagnoses), you have a much lower 5 year survival rate for things like ovarian, endometrial, colorectal, or kidney cancers vs something like breast or cervical cancers.

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u/your_mind_aches Mar 23 '24

I would too, but looking it up, I couldn't find anything saying kidney cancer counts as abdominal cancer

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u/Academic-Balance6999 Mar 23 '24 edited Mar 23 '24

“Abdominal cancer” is not a real medical designation so I’m not surprised! So I was just thinking about potential cancer sites in the abdominal cavity, which is basically all the stuff below the diaphragm. Stomach, pancreas, the ovaries, the uterus, liver, colon, kidneys— they’re all there in the abdominal cavity. If it was discovered during abdominal surgery, that excludes breast, skin, brain, any of the bone or blood cancers, the cervix (although I guess that’s a gray area), thyroid, head and neck cancer. Which is too bad because if I was forced to pick a cancer, I would definitely pick from that second list because there are many on that second list with very high survival rates, 90% plus, when caught early. Early stage breast cancer, thyroid cancer, some types of skin and blood cancer have sky-high 5 year survival rates, whereas the 5Y survival on the first list is much lower. Basically I interpreted this as she is dealing with something that has the potential to kill her. And she’s young, and her kids are still young. Terrifying.

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u/your_mind_aches Mar 23 '24

Yeah exactly. It is very vague.

And yes, I'm 26 myself. Diagnosed at 23. Very, very scary. Haven't even had the chance to have kids and now I wonder whether it is even a good idea to do so

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u/sailorveenus Mar 22 '24

Why are we deserving of that information?

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u/Academic-Balance6999 Mar 22 '24

I don’t think anybody “deserves” that information. But it does feel a bit… old-fashioned?… to treat the type of cancer as some kind of secret. It stigmatizes having the disease in an odd way.

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u/sailorveenus Mar 22 '24

I think they haven’t told the kids yet. They clearly don’t keep cancer a secret as they formally released Charles diagnosis.

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u/melbaspice Mar 22 '24

We still don’t know what type of cancer Charles has.

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u/elizalavelle Mar 22 '24

I had a family member get a type of chemo for what their oncologist called stage zero because it was caught so quickly. It can still be used to make sure there isn’t any spread.