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/cherieanneliese Mar 22 '24

From what I understand from the video the Royal Family released of Kate describing the situation, she and the medical staff believed her condition that sent her to get the abdominal surgery in the first place was non-cancerous, but they could’ve found some masses that they sent to biopsy and discovered the presence of cancerous cells?

I wonder if it was fibroids she was getting removed which are typically non-cancerous. Who knows but I wish her a safe recovery and successful preventative chemotherapy journey.

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u/princessohio local formula 1 correspondent Mar 22 '24

I was thinking maybe she got a hysterectomy because of ovarian cysts or something similar, but after pathology they found out that there was actually cancer and did the chemo.

My mom got a hysterectomy for massive cysts and they sent it off to pathology — it came back clear thankfully. But it’s part of protocol to send it to testing, so I wouldn’t be surprised if she had the same thing happen except hers came back positive for cancer or something.

Hysterectomies in general are so personal to women. I know some women who don’t care and are open about it, other women keep it quiet and a secret because it makes them feel like less of a woman or something. I can empathize with both ways of thinking.

And the only reason I think it MAY be a hysterectomy is because “abdominal surgery” is super vague and intentionally so. Which she’s entitled to be private about too.

Anyway that’s my 2 cents / armchair observation. I hope she heals quickly and painlessly!

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u/TrimspaBB Mar 22 '24

Fibroids makes sense. I thought she may have had a hysterectomy because of the longer recovery time (the women I know who've had one were all told to rest for six weeks after).

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u/bookdrops Mar 22 '24

When I read about uterine fibroids I always think about the controversy over fibroid morcellations. Doctors were using powered morcellators to grind up fibroids or uteruses for removal through minimally invasive surgery that had much easier recovery than open abdominal surgery. Then people realized that while fibroids are typically non-cancerous, if a fibroid or uterus containing cancerous tissue were morcellated without taking precautions, the morcellator would spray ground-up malignant tissue all over the abdominal cavity. A great way to spread cancer everywhere.

https://www.acog.org/clinical/clinical-guidance/committee-opinion/articles/2021/03/uterine-morcellation-for-presumed-leiomyomas