Shock report: Kate Middleton was "fortunate" to survive cancer

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The Daily Mail has run a slew of articles on colon cancer in young people. That's what I think she had. Remember she's very thin and might have had colitis that became cancerous.

she looks worn out, keeps the million dollar smile on, but looks exhausted in recent pics.

I think she's fabulous. For the KGT, I'm not an old British crone. I'm a gay American man.

Sure Jan

Yeah, she went through it. My brother got colon cancer at 45. I don't know what the fuck is going with this world

Isn’t everyone?

An interesting question to ask is why Catherine's team are leaking this now

a) response to the flurry of headlines about her missing a previously scheduled event

b) it's back

R8, I have it on good authority she was going to be arrested for trafficking house servants from India, but the BRF pulled some strings and her team floated this story.

c) it's that dark-skinned American interloper

DL doctors, correct me if I'm wrong, but —

If a person has colitis severe enough to require abdominal surgery, they've probably been scoped (and even scanned) enough to make it less likely that colon cancer would be a surprise discovered during the procedure.

Surgery to remove what looked like an ovarian cyst on ultrasound is more likely to reveal unexpected cancer, particularly advanced.

The two-week initial hospital stay seems to point toward colon, but if an initial laproscopic procedure for a suspected ovarian cyst revealed scary stuff, they may have had to regroup and call in specialists before a larger, open surgery.

I posted this in the thread about her absence from Ascot. Worth reposting here.

It was one of the hottest (if not the hottest) days of the year.

I'll let AI do the talking:

[QUOTE]Yes, cancer survivors can be more susceptible to heat. Cancer treatments, like chemotherapy and radiation, can make the skin more sensitive to the sun and heat. Additionally, some cancer treatments can affect the body's ability to regulate temperature, potentially leading to dehydration or other heat-related illnesses.

Also, she might very well likely be going through premature menopause. Both chemotherapy and radiation treatments, particularly if targeted to the pelvic region, can cause it. Heat and sunlight can actually precipitate hot flashes. No menopausal woman in her right mind would want to spend a hot afternoon in the beating sun

I didn't think about the fact that the DM has been having (at least) one new article every week for awhile now...never thought to connect it to Kate.

Perhaps it's being leaked now because the DM has been working up to spilling the beans and the BRF is finally just throwing their hands up in the air and saying "ok, just do it."

Other publications have had an awful lot of articles about the recent increased incidence of colon cancer in relatively young adults. We've had a thread or two about it.

Threads about incidence in the UK?

I can't remember specifically, but epidemiological studies were probably done in the U.S.

Hi Meghan at R10 👋

Some real tea in the bad newspaper today:

"But now, thanks to Bedell Smith's quietly explosive new disclosures on her Royals Extra Substack blog, it is part of the public record. This isn't embellished tittle tattle. Bedell Smith is a rigorous royal biographer with decades of access to top sources, a biographer who exercises considerable restraint about what she publishes.

Lady Elizabeth died in November 2020, aged 79. But in her final years, she documented the private conversations she'd had with the Queen. Her notes now reveal a deeply personal portrait of a monarch shaken and quietly wounded.

Her telling observations shed an extraordinary new light on the late Queen's views on Harry and Meghan. 'She said she was not at all content,' wrote Anson at one point.

'Harry was rude to her for ten minutes,' at another.

'Meghan wouldn't tell her about the wedding dress,' Lady Elizabeth revealed.

'The jury is out on whether she likes Meghan,' she declared.

These were the words of a grandmother hurt, confused and heartbroken rather than those of a sovereign. As a monarch she knew exactly what to do, as a grandmother she found it all very painful.

Having reported on the royals for well over three decades, I can say with confidence that Lady Elizabeth notes mirrored what many in the palace were saying at the time.

While the couple's departure was wrapped in carefully managed press statements, behind the scenes the late Queen felt isolated, excluded.

She didn't understand Meghan's obsession with fame, or Harry's rash choices – especially when they lacked the ballast of service and duty. And she worried that Harry, once so cheerful and grounded, had 'lost his way'.

'She has blown his relationship with his grandmother,' Lady Elizabeth wrote about Meghan. A line that still cuts like a shard of glass. Spot on.

The late Queen found the chaos around the wedding baffling. Tantrums about tiaras, the insistence of having a veil when she had already been divorced.

She had hoped that Harry and Meghan's wedding in May 2018 would be a moment of family unity. Instead, there were rumblings of discord from the start. Protocol was sidestepped, staff were distressed, and the Queen's efforts at connecting with the bride-to-be, particularly around the choice of wedding dress, were apparently rebuffed.

'She was trying to find out about the wedding dress,' Lady Elizabeth noted, 'and Meghan wouldn't tell her.'

Lady Elizabeth was blunt in her assessment of Meghan. 'We hope but don't quite think she is in love. We think she engineered it all.'

And of Harry: 'The problem, bless his heart, is that Harry is neither bright nor strong, and she is both.'

n early 2019, not long after the wedding, a senior courtier shared something that has stayed with me ever since. 'The Boss is not happy,' he said. 'She doesn't get all the celebrity stuff. She thinks Harry is throwing it all away, for what?'

What does this have to do with Kate's cancer-ridden cunt or ass, R19?

[quote]cunt or ass

r20 Try being respectful for once in your so-called life.

You could try as well r21. I usually ww your posts but siding with disrespectful racists is pretty low. I am disappointed in you.

Oh, fuck off. R22.

How is r20 racist, r22?

Kate has cancer that began in her CUNT or ASS.

She is a human being, and humans get gynecological or gastrointestinal cancers. We have these body parts; it happens.

Her prudishness about disclosure is disappointingly predictable, but I can't understand or respect it. British taxpayers have funded her life of unparalleled luxury. You'd think she would have tried to pay it forward by raising awareness for testing and treatment, which is underfunded worldwide.

[quote] She looks worn out, keeps the million-dollar smile on, but looks exhausted in recent pics.

She looked bad for 6 months before she went into the hospital.

ass cancer

I have my DL settings on Asbestos Eyeballs and guess what? r20 and r25 are crossed out.

If I had to guess, I would say she hd a history of either ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease both of which can predispose a person to increased risk of colon cancer. She may have had evidence of precancerous lesions that turned out to be cancer after pathology tests came back. She may have had either a temporary or permanent colostomy depending on how extensive her surgery was which was why she had such a long hospital stay. This type of condition and these types of surgeries tend to be embarrassing to the patient which may be even more of a reason she hasn't discussed the specifics publicly.

More sensationalist nonsense from the Daily Beast, exaggerating even more the sensationalist nonsense from the Daily Mail article it lifts from. The Daily Mail article doesn't even connect Catherine's supposedly being fortunate to be here to her cancer but to her original abdominal surgery, so if she was supposedly at the brink of death it was due to the abdominal issue, not cancer.

From the DM:

[quote]As I have previously revealed, the princess was seriously unwell in the run-up to her surgery in the first place.

[quote]And while that is a story only for her to tell - if she ever chooses to do so - I can say that, from what I understand, she is fortunate to even be speaking of recovery.

r29 Or she may have (had?) cancer of the appendix or peritoneum (lining of the abdomen between gut and muscles, etc) both of which are pretty rare but spread like wildfire.

I hope Kate's quality of life hasn't gone downhill and she's kept comfortable.

Cancer of the peritoneum is typically treated with the same chemo regimin as ovarian and endometrial cancer. In the US, first line is most commonly Taxol and carboplatin. The doses used virtually 100% of the time cause alopecia. Colon cancer is treated most commonly with 5-FU which usually does not result in hair loss. She doesn't appear to have hair loss, but perhaps she's wearing a good wig that matches her previous hairstyle. I have never been involved with the treatment of cancer of the appendix (not that I recall). I suppose 5-FU is used in that, too.

A neighbor of mine had cancer of the appendix (a youngish man, maybe 50 years old). He lost enormous amounts of weight and was very ill leading up to diagnosis. He ended up having to lose whatever organs he could live without and had a year off work and a long, long recovery. Catherine probably didn't have this particular cancer because it's very rare, but anything is possible. Point being, I'm not sure why people think she is super human and should just bounce back like nothing happened. For my neighbor, even now a few years later, he's still nowhere near the energetic person he had been before he got ill.

Now I've gone down the rabbit hole with appendiceal cancer. It us quite rare (1 to 2 cases per million people). Not something you would want to deal with. Surgical resection sounds horrifying if not caught early.

[quote] I hope Kate's quality of life hasn't gone downhill and she's kept comfortable.

R31, Kitty

Kate's quality of life was very high before her illness. I'm sure she's still comfortable despite recent declines.

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D'aww little chonky baby! 🥰🐈

[QUOTE]More sensationalist nonsense from the Daily Beast, exaggerating even more the sensationalist nonsense from the Daily Mail article it lifts from.

Which you chose to highlight here. Thanks for your ever ready sense.

Australian here. We've also had lots of reports over the last few months about the increase in colon cancer among relatively young people, so I wouldn't be too quick to tie it to news of Catherine.

If she had ulcerative colitis or Crohns Disease for years before her cancer diagnosis, well hats off to her for managing to do public engagements at all. Flare ups are horribly painful.

Processed foods with additives and too much sodium are horrible.

I broke my right arm near the elbow and my wrist ~ 3 weeks ago and have had a cast and impaired mobility. I've been living off Door Dash and easy foods I can stick in the oven or microwave. I've never had so much water retention ever in my life. (I'm 60).

I can't walk my usual 3 miles/day so blimpy water retention freaked me out. Luckily the Ortho tech knew to make some incisions to releive

I normally walk 3 or so miles per day, but I have become a blimp. Yet, I've managed to put off a colonoscopy due to my state. They want fully mobile people. I'm OK with that. Yes, fear.

I’m a woman and strongly suspect it was ovarian cancer. Had surgery for ovarian cysts, which can be very painful and debilitating and they found cancer. If she’s “lucky to be talking about recovery” was probably stage 2 or early 3.

I’ve known a few woman who had it around Kate’s age. It’s been linked to birth control pills and HPV, so hits younger women. One friend died of it at 35. She was in full remission for a year until it came roaring back and she died.

I really like Kate. She’s handled her illness with great dignity and seems like and all around good egg and mom. Do so hope she is free of it.

R40 So?

I'll be interested in finding out what the culprit is for the increased rate of colon cancer in the young. Yes, I know there are the obesity and "processed foods" connections, but it seems to be happening in people who generally eat pretty healthy as well. This makes me think it's going to turn out to be a specific chemical.

R41 You are correct that there is an association with ovarian cancer and birth control pills, however that association is a significantly reduced risk (a very significant 30% to 50% reduced risk). That holds true with women of average risk as well as those with BRCA mutations. The reduced risk is more pronounced with increasing years of oral contraceptive use. Things that increase risk of ovarian cancer are delayed childbearing or nulliparity. Early puberty and late menopause also increase the risk. The protective effects of birth control pills on the ovaries is thought to be by reducing ovulation. Regular/monthly ovulation causes trauma to the ovarian epithelium.

To relieve your lack of knowledge, dear r42? Complications complicate. But you'd probably be too shit-faced antagonistic in dire need to have others care about you.

They probably wouldn't even notice your distress and they'd step over your wretching, writhing body before you took your last breath during anaphylactic shock. Actually, they'd probably play toss and keep away from your Epi Pen. And nobody would admit anything.later. Oh, he died?

It's not a far-fetched scenario. Wouldn't the world be a better place without you?

R45 There's no need to be mean.

I saw pictures from an appearance she made yesterday, and it was the first time I've ever thought she looked worn out. Her hair was stringy, she looked emaciated. It was quite sad.

R47, i know it’s frivolous to notice, but i think she is foregoing Botox and fillers, which may be contributing to her appearance. I don’t blame her, I would avoid putting anything abnormal in my body if I were in her shoes. But yes, she did look a bit worn.

Looking at the photos on a Certain website that always puts up the worst ones they can find of Kate, she looks fine. I don’t think beige/brown is doing any favors so she should avoid those colors for a while. There’s a shot of her hair, back view and it’s the worst of the bunch. She should definitely cut off 6” or more. It’s just getting too long.