Kate Middleton reveals that she has cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy treatments.
March 22, 2024/Reuters
The Princess of Wales, Kate Middleton, revealed last weekend that she was diagnosed with cancer and is undergoing a series of "preventative" chemotherapy treatments.
In the video she released, she said, "In January, I underwent a complex operation in London and at the time the assessment was that I did not have cancer," said the 42-year-old British princess.
"The surgery was indeed successful, but tests conducted after it showed that the tumor was cancerous. My medical team recommended that I undergo prophylactic chemotherapy, and I am now undergoing the first stages of treatment."
So what do we know about the treatment and its side effects?
The phrase "preventive chemo" is misleading and the word "helps" is more correct," explains Dina Levits, an oncology specialist from Maccabi Health Services. "There was a tumor, followed by surgery, and now we are giving treatment that will help prevent the recurrence of the disease by eliminating micro metastases in the body."
"The treatment Very much depends on the cancer," explains Dr. Levits.
"Ovarian cancer, for example, will include a combined chemotherapy treatment of two types for six cycles, an intestinal tumor will include surgery followed by another chemotherapy treatment and for a different period of time - between three and six months of treatment. And of course it could also be something else. At the age of 42, in the case of the princess, the The most significant is whether she is a genetic carrier because then it changes the diagnosis, the treatment and the follow-up of the disease."
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What are the expected side effects of the treatment?
"The biggest stigma associated with the side effects of chemotherapy treatments is that of nausea, and this is not true because today there is actually a good treatment for nausea," explains Dr. Levits. Does not appear in public - because the external section affects her.
The only side effect she feels physically is a significant general weakness, but externally, depending on the phase of the chemotherapy treatment she receives, there will be hair and eyebrow loss."
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What are the chances of success?
"The chances of success in such treatments depend on many factors. If we are not talking about metastatic cancer, then it can be treated. If the disease is in an earlier stage, the chances of the disease returning are lower. The more advanced the stage of the disease, the higher the chances of the disease returning. The chemotherapy treatment is to make sure that there are no more cancer cells, thereby reducing the chance that the disease will return."
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