Friday March 22, 2024, Kate Middleton broke the silence to announce to the world, through a video published on her Instagram account, that she had cancer. In January 2024, the Princess of Wales had already worried her loyal supporters by revealing that she had undergone abdominal surgery. That’s when doctors found traces of cancer. “It’s been an incredibly difficult two months for the whole family, but I had a fantastic medical team who took great care of me.”, said Kate Middleton. The Princess of Wales has been preparing for weeks to reveal her illness to the general public. And Prince William’s wife seems to have needed time to take a step back from this painful news: “It was of course a huge shock.. William and I did everything we could to handle this privately, for the sake of our young family. As you can imagine, this took a while. […] But more importantly, it took us a while to explain everything to George, Charlotte and Louisin a way that is appropriate for them, and to reassure them that everything is going to be okay.” The Princess of Wales is now focused on her recovery. For this, she started a “preventive chemotherapy“.”I’m doing well, and I’m getting stronger every day as I focus on the things that will help me heal.”she assured.
Preventive chemotherapy: “There are sometimes cells that have gone elsewhere”
Friday March 22, 2024, in the columns of ParisianProfessor Nicolas Girard, head of the medical oncology department at the Institut Curie, took the floor to explain what is preventive chemotherapy. This treatment, recommended as part of a diagnosis at an early stage of the disease, makes it possible to destroy cancer cells which could have lodged in other parts of the body: “When cancer is diagnosed at a localized stage, that is to say when there are no metastases elsewhere in the body, surgery is done to remove it. But there are sometimes cells that have gone elsewhere, without us seeing them. The point of preventive treatments is to destroy these cells“, he detailed. This treatment is classic in this type of case.according to the oncology professor: “Surgery alone is rarely enough, except in cases of very small tumors. But if it is large and there are affected nodes, we will carry out additional treatments.“, he added.