He just underwent what was likely a transurethral resection of the prostate last week, and they say that what was found, was not prostate cancer.
Seems to me that if he was a smoker in the past, the most likely thing that they could have found in such a procedure would have been bladder or urethral cancer, and if it was found early, that would be very treatable.
I believe he may have snuck a few cigarettes at boarding school, but didn’t get into the habit. But he was certainly exposed to second-hand smoke from Camilla (who quit a while ago) at Highgrove and other members of his family when living in Buckingham Palace.
Anyway, hoping for the best.
With his father and his wife both on medical leave Will will have his hands full. Having a spare looks a lot better now, I bet.
(Okay, I’m being snarky. I saw Harry is headed over to visit his father later this week. I hope the silver lining of Charles’s illness might be some family reconciliation.)
You are right, harry and meghan could have pinch hit as royal mascots. Not gonna happen now.
That’s very unfortunate news.
I wish him well.
Not only do I wish him well, but I hope this will result in some reconciliation with his sons.
I’m sure the palace flacks and the British tabloids will find a way to blame this on Harry and Meghan.
Thanks for this perspective. Someone had suggested colo rectal but maybe that wouldn’t be discoverable in prostate testing?
I don’t know why I got concerned when I didn’t hear the statement, “The cancer was caught in the early stages, and King Charles is expected to make a full recovery.” - I feel like this sort of statement is commonplace with an easily treatable cancer.
Colorectal would have been caught early on a routine colonoscopy. Examining that part of the body is not part of a TURP. The only other thing that I can think of that might have been found on a TURP other than urethral or bladder cancer would be penile cancer, but he’s circumcised, which makes that extremely unlikely.
I’ve already seen this on Twitter. Mostly attacks on Megan, but some on the both of them for causing not only this, but Catherine’s health issue and the deaths of the Queen and Prince Phillip. There are a lot of hateful and delusional people who frequent Twitter.
It’s so bizarre. The Meghan haters in particular go at her like it’s their job. Of course, there’s no racism or misogyny behind it whatsoever. No siree, these people just know how evil she is. 
Speculation in the media that it could be a blood cancer (also plenty of speculation that it’s urethrel/bladder cancer). I doubt that it’s a blood cancer, because although that certainly could have been found on the preop bloodwork, a TURP is not an emergency procedure, so I bet that if they’d seen a serious problem on the bloodwork, they would have gone straight to treatment, and delayed the TURP.
There are Twitter accounts whose sole stated mission is hating on Megan.
There are subreddits devoted to the topic as well
I have no medical training, whatsoever, but this situation is eerily similar to a prior experience. Pre-op bloodwork for an outpatient procedure didn’t show what would, in short time, be diagnosed as acute myeloid leukemia. The healing capabilities of the blood simply didn’t work after the procedure.
In the US, TURP is often an outpatient procedure. Why was Charles in for 3 days? That is enough time to wonder about post-op complications, with the additional diagnostic procedure possibly being a bone marrow biopsy.
And why did Harry hop on a plane as soon as he found out if the situation were as benign as indicated? And tears from Prince Charles as he rode away in the car?
If it is AML, the most aggressive form of leukemia, the prognosis at Charles’ age is extremely poor. They often go straight to palliative care, as it will progress very quickly.
I hope it is not AML.
Many things in the UK take longer than in the US. Doctors here were commenting that they don’t have any stomach surgeries that have the patient in the hospital for longer than 4-5 days, yet Catherine was in for 2 weeks. My mother had a double mastectomy at age 86 and was only in the hospital overnight.
But then, my mother wasn’t a King or even a Princess.
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Wow, short visit. I don’t quite understand that. I wouldn’t even make that short a trip to Texas if my father were ill.
I think it must be quite serious for Harry to show up so soon.
Regarding Post #8 – @parentologist , how in the world do you know he’s circumcised??