Buckingham Palace finally addresses King Charles cancer type | They are purposefully not saying what type it is in order to "support the whole cancer community"
  • 170 points CulturedClub

    So, prostate then

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    34 points Neracle

    Or colorectal cancer. Would love to see stigmas for any illness go away.

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    0 points Iron_Wolf123

    Isn’t one of the treatments to insert the doctors arm deep into a patients butthole?

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    1 points Independent_Cow_6611

    They did say it wasn't prostate, I think because they'd already announced he was being treated for an enlarged prostate.

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  • 85 points Cheese-Manipulator

    I don't understand why cancer is treated like a dirty secret so often.

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    16 points hskskgfk

    Depends on which body part the cancer is in I suppose. Prostrate cancer is a dirtier secret for some reason than skin cancer

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    8 points paramedTX

    Which is stupid since pretty much every dude will develop it if they live long enough.

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    4 points hskskgfk

    Yeah… it’s unfortunate but some body parts are considered impolite to be talked about, and that prudishness seeps into medical talk as well

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    1 points OnionsAbound

    I think that's true for all cancers. . . 

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    12 points KaraAliasRaidra

    Especially when so many people have had it. I think it would be hard to find a family that hasn't had at least one person get cancer (I've had people on both sides of my family have it).

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  • 51 points Rhewin

    Oh wow, it must be bad

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    42 points AtomicGameTester

    he’s got whole cancer

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    5 points thursday-T-time

    🕳 cancer

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    8 points Cheese-Manipulator

    Hole cancer

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    5 points BusterTheSuperDog

    Or it's one of those kinds that someone can live with and have treatment for many years without the goal of curing it, like my grandfather has, and they don't want to get into the weeds of people assuming that such a path is the same as going directly into hospice and being 'unfit to hold the throne' (whatever that job even means anymore).

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    1 points Alert_South5092

    Or maybe he'd like to retain a few shreds of privacy and not tell the whole world about his medical issues, like a normal person

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  • 15 points Sweet-Dotte8691

    Dick cancer?

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    2 points PozhanPop

    Possible considering his history.

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    1 points selfintersection

    My thinking as well

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    -15 points [deleted]

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    18 points restingbitchsocks

    Not heard that. It’s largely age related with a genetic component

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    5 points CallidoraBlack

    This makes absolutely no sense. Did you just make this up? Because prostate cancer is most common in really old men. Do you even know what a prostate is?

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    2 points PreOpTransCentaur

    https://prostatecanceruk.org/prostate-information-and-support/living-with-prostate-cancer/information-for-gay-and-bisexual-men

    No, sorry, you've either been lied to in a really weird way that literally none of us have ever experienced, or you just made shit right the fuck up and stuck with it because, to you, I guess, it made some sort of logical sense. There's no stigma around prostate cancer, and, in fact, about 80% of men who reach 80 years old have cancer cells in their prostates.

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    1 points queertheories

    Literally not true; misinformation spread by hate groups to stigmatize gay people AND manages to stigmatize people with prostate cancer as well.

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    1 points bowiethesdmn

    Absolute dogshit

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  • 8 points PreOpTransCentaur

    I always figured it was ass cancer since they outright said it wasn't prostate cancer but it was found during treatment for an enlarged prostate. They don't care about the whole cancer community, they just think it's embarrassing.

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  • 4 points jensized

    So it’s a really bad one huh 

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  • 6 points 222Czar

    Ooooooh. Buckingham Palace is withholding information to be helpful. See, it’s humanitarian evasion and subterfuge about royal health.

    Just say nothing. I’m an American and totally uninterested by royals drama. But why add the layer of patronizing BS? Are they taking cues from our media? Wtf.

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  • 2 points CactusRaeGalaxy

    Sounds like brain or prostate cancer. Keeping it secret so people don't react negatively

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    1 points SmurfRiding

    I doubt it's brain cancer. At some point we would've needed surgery to remove the more visible tumours and chemotherapy is less effective due to the blood brain barrier so radiotherapy might've been recommended.

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  • 1 points Financial_Counter_08

    Frankly judgement on prostate cancer is mostly interneral.

    No one I know would judge someone for prostate cancer. If I had it I can't imagine not telling anyone because its in my bum. If I were to talk about it I doubt anyone would judge me and I've never seen someone that wasn't a low life judge someone for it.

    To note, both my parents had cancer, my mum had breast cancer and my dad had Thyroid which killed him are 12 amazing years and 3 not so good ones.

    I also believe even if you know no one that has cancer, you are welcome to any opinion on this matter as there is a high chance you will have it some day, as a kid when my mum got it cancer was terrifying and scary because people don't talk about it, but it was in remission only a couple years later.

    Cancer is not volermort. It's a drunk viloent bastard in a pub that get's worse the more you ignore him and let him drink, and today we've got more bouncers than ever to deal with him.

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  • -2 points eggpoowee

    The royals love a secret......Diana, Noncey Andrew

    They're horrible fuckers, let's be honest

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