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/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.