King Charles shares rare insight into ‘managing’ cancer ‘side effects’ amid ongoing treatment
The Monarch rarely speaks about his cancer treatment
Since sharing the worrying news that he was undergoing treatment for cancer in January 2024, King Charles has divulged few details on his illness.
However, the monarch made an unexpected comment on his treatment during a public engagement in Northern Ireland. The King spoke to people who are living with cancer, asking whether they were managing to “survive the side effects alright?” before adding sympathetically: “You just have to push on, don’t you?”
King Charles also visited a laboratory at Ulster University, learning about a new technique for a highly “targeted drug delivery system”, in which medicine is loaded into microbubbles to send to the precise site of cancer within the body.
© POOL/AFP via Getty ImagesUsing ultrasound, the bubbles are burst to deliver the drug to try to eradicate the cancer. The technique, which is about to begin clinical trials on humans, is designed to minimise the side effects of chemotherapy, using just 10 – 20 per cent of the dose currently required.
The King, who has seen unpleasant side effects including a loss of taste during treatment, proclaimed the research “amazing”.
