2024-03-24 06:03:16
Kate Middleton’s cancer diagnosis follows a familiar scenario, say doctors around the world. In many cases, cancers are found during other major medical procedures—in this case, abdominal surgery.
“So many cancers come on suddenly,” says Dr. Elena Ratner, a gynecologic oncologist at the Yale Cancer Center who specializes in ovarian, urinary tract, and uterine cancers.
Ratner commented that it is very common for women to undergo surgery for endometriosis, only to find out later that it is actually cancer.
In her statement, Kate Middleton said she had started a preventive course of chemotherapy. This is also well known to those skilled in the art. This is done when the tumor has been removed and in the hope that it will not come back.
“It also means that doctors have removed everything visible during surgery,” commented Dr. Michael Beerer, director of the Rockefeller Center for Cancer Research. “The cancer can’t be seen, microscopic disease cells remain. Chemotherapy is the way they attack each other,” Beerer explains.
Dr. Ratner commented on other parts of Kate Middleton’s video, but most notably her statement: William and I are doing everything we can to understand what happened and to organize ourselves out of the public eye, for the sake of our family. It took us a while to explain everything to George, Charlotte and Louis in a way that worked for them and to reassure them that I would be fine.
“I see this every day. It is very difficult for women when they are diagnosed with cancer. Women always think if they will be okay for their children, what will happen to the children. They never say, ‘What’s going to happen to me,'” Ratner says of the emotional side of the disease, bTV quotes.