Kate Has Cancer

[sandyRoe]

The Princess of Wales is being treated for cancer.

A report on BBC radio news.

[Mozz71]

Perhaps the press will stop bleaching about those photos now. May she get better and make a full recovery, not because she's a royal, but because she's a young mother of three. I also hope she gets the privacy she needs.

[Peter Pedant]

Bars - I cannot name the poster as a result of data protection ! haw haw haw

[jno]

nah, the photos are just wonky because Kate is an amateur, but she must have felt as the young mother she ought to be the one spreading good photographic cheer.  Father in law sick, mother in law looking after him, husband in theory the top working royal though Uncle Andy eager to assist. Tough for her, she is young.

[douglas9401]

Her recovery will no doubt be helped by not having to worry about any particular medical tool drug or procedure being available when needed.

People may also want to pull it all back a bit on the gushing, it's not like she's the only relatively young person to have cancer, a more even sharing of thoughts and prayers may do some good.

[naomi24]

How sour you are, douglas.   Regardless of her status, money doesn't dimimish the love families have for one another - and neither does it make the pain less.

[Ken4155]

I've known quite a few young mothers who have succumbed to this awful disease (including one or two close friends' children) and i wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. I feel as much sympathy for Kate and her family as i would for anyone in this situation. I truly wish her well.

[douglas9401]

Thanks for that naomi, you have a handy reference point, lemon-wise and seldom shrink from using it. x

[William51]

  It is tragic, first King Charles and now Kate. The nation wishes them well.

[anneasquith]

Don't forget Fergie . 

[Peter Pedant]

New England Journal did a study of intercessary prayer ( = praying for someone  else)

https://www.jwatch.org/jp200606070000006/2006/06/07/another-study-intercessory-prayer

 

[Peter Pedant]

worry about any particular medical tool drug or procedure being available when needed.

christ you have to be pretty crazy to have chemo privately - usually covered by insurance and the insurance might say " times up, you have had your lot!"

(come up  wwith £5000 cash or you dont get your next bag of rituximab)

[Atheist]

PP. Didn't they find out that those who knew that they were being prayed for tended to do worse than those who didn't know?

[Peter Pedant]

yes the heart one did ( find that the prayed for ones did a little worse)

it is in the paper I referenced - I have someone praying for me and it is obviously working - stage IV blood cancer for 10 years ( twelve actually)

[Peter Pedant]

Cardinal Richelieu used convents as prayer factories and the results ( Huxley ) were 50:50 - reader 1620 that is

Yusuf doo dah, first minister norrrrrrrth of the border is praying for her. I think the fluffy hack got that one wrong. Intercessionary prayer is off the menu for muslims ( I bet one sect does it - ahmediyyah perhaps)

Teresa of Avila 1580 - zair 'av been more problems from prayers answered than those that go unanswered.....

[sandyRoe]

God works in mysterious ways his wonders to perform.

If a prayer appears to go unanswered it may actually be for the best.

[LadyCG]

William lost his mother at a ridiculously young age - let's hope his children don't experience the same. They are no less deserving of sympathy than anyone else. What the family is going through at this time doesn't bear thinking about.

I worked in Oncology for years and no one had to wait any longer than the next person for the treatment they were eligible for.  Additionally, no amount of money could buy you any different or better treatment than you could be offered on the NHS. 

[davebro3]

//Additionally, no amount of money could buy you any different or better treatment than you could be offered on the NHS. //

Really? You amaze me.

[LadyCG]

Seriously, Dave.  

We would offer patients a treatment regimen like, say, Kadcyla, and they would insist on exploring other options through the private setting only to find out that the only available treatment in their particular situation was ... Kadcyla.  They then had the choice to pay through the nose for it to get it on the NHS the following week.  I am literally not kidding.

It is of course a bit different when you are waiting for a knee replacement. You go on the list and you wait until you can be offered a date. When it comes to cancer, you HAVE to have treatment within a specified time-frame, especially when it comes to adjuvant chemo like the PoW is having.

[LadyCG]

*OR* get it on the NHS

[davebro3]

I jut wonder how many women of Kate's age are currently reveiving cancer treatment in the UK.  Is it so unusual that the whole world needs hourly updates?