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Gee...I'll bet you're a lot of fun at parties...
King Charles has cancer...
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Gee...I'll bet you're a lot of fun at parties...
The Brits, along with the French, are our strongest and most loyal allies.
The war is over.
The war is over.
cmj8591
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Hopefully his status will put him in a position where he won't have to fight with his insurance company to pay for his chemo. And I wonder if they make him wait in the waiting room with his IV and all the other people waiting for their dose?
And on balance, we are fortunate to have them. Despite our differences, we are stronger together. Don’t pretend to understand the minutiae of the royals, but cancer is in no way deserved. Best wishes to King Charles.
sigp220.45
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I have no connection to the Royal Family, other than seeing Queen Elizabeth once when she landed at my Air Force Base. I was the Ops Officer of the SP squadron so I was in front of the barricades. When the little lady in the hat came down the stairs I came under a healthy barrage of abuse from the assembled Dependasauruses behind the line - no matter where I stood one of them was bellowing at me to move out of her picture.
I like King Charles. He rode out the Diana mess, married his true love, got to be King, and now this. I think its pretty bad - they said its not prostate cancer, but something else they found. Too bad, he seems like a good egg.
I hope he recovers and lives as long as his mum.
PS - we didn’t “kick them out” til 1783.
I like King Charles. He rode out the Diana mess, married his true love, got to be King, and now this. I think its pretty bad - they said its not prostate cancer, but something else they found. Too bad, he seems like a good egg.
I hope he recovers and lives as long as his mum.
PS - we didn’t “kick them out” til 1783.
The stat I have read is that 3 out of 4 men who live to age 70 will develop prostate cancer.
But the good news is that most of the men diagnosed with prostate cancer will die WITH it rather than die FROM it. In the majority of cases the tumor is a slow-growing chronic condition rather than a fast-progressing ACUTE condition.
Unfortunately I was diagnosed pretty young at age 55. IIRC the biopsy came back as stage 3 with a Gleason score of 6.
Fortunately, post operative analysis of the tumor and prostate tissue revealed that it was actually only stage 2 and my actual Gleason score was around a 5.
The original biopsy samples just happened to have hit the tumor an unusually high number of times - which made it seem worse and more advanced than it actually was.
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Rotorhead1026
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Y’all realize that the King doesn’t have prostate cancer, right?
Nobody here reads for content. The amount of misinformation in this thread reminds me that everyone posting votes, and that also makes me sad . . .
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I make it a point to read for content. I read every post in a thread I am visiting.
As to my voting: duly noted.
I am.........But detest worthless people whose only claim to fame is their bloodline...........Their list of accomplishments would fit on a pot-it-note.
Well, I haven't seen anything definitively stating what form of cancer the King has. Have you? Please share your insights.
What most of us DO know, is that prostate cancer is the most common form of cancer for older men, and since the King has a documented history of prostate issues, the idea that 2+2 usually equals 4 seems reasonable.
However, if you have some additional specifics about His Majesty's condition that the rest of us aren't privy to, please share.
Enquiring minds want to know....
sigp220.45
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StrawHat
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It is mentioned the second and third paragraph of the link in the Opening Post of this thread.
Kevin
You're correct that there are a number of types. However, it's possible to have more than one form and some of the more active ones can suddenly decide to change how aggressive they are.
Figuring out how to best treat my condition took awhile, once they got me opened up, they discovered (so I was told), that the more active form had stepped up it's game. They were initially concerned it might have escaped the prostate. So far, my oncologist hasn't found anything that concerns him.
Guys, if you're 50 or over start shopping for a good urologist and start making regular visits. Detection is by blood work, so no comparison to a colonoscopy.
Back on topic, back when, Readers Digest's Humor in Uniform segment once featured stories about Charles's service in the Royal Navy, taken from UK sources. Don't really know why these two stuck with me.
Some sailor was asked how it was having the Prince as an officer. The guy stated he was just like every other RN officer. Except that the picture (of the head of state) in the officers mess was his mum.
The other one was of an incident while he was Captain of a RN combat ship. One of the seaman felt the food was largely inedible. The complaints went up the chain of command until the seaman and his officer were in front of the CO with an example of the "inedible slop".
Charles sampled the food pronounced it "quite good". The seaman's response was "Begging the Captains pardon, but I'm going to take this to a higher authority."
There was a short silence and then Charles quietly asked: "Just how much higher do you think you can go?"
Some sailor was asked how it was having the Prince as an officer. The guy stated he was just like every other RN officer. Except that the picture (of the head of state) in the officers mess was his mum.
The other one was of an incident while he was Captain of a RN combat ship. One of the seaman felt the food was largely inedible. The complaints went up the chain of command until the seaman and his officer were in front of the CO with an example of the "inedible slop".
Charles sampled the food pronounced it "quite good". The seaman's response was "Begging the Captains pardon, but I'm going to take this to a higher authority."
There was a short silence and then Charles quietly asked: "Just how much higher do you think you can go?"
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taz666
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Brit humor is top notch ... bar none 
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Off topic (sort of), but the British royal family have a longstanding tradition of serving in the military, right down to the current adult generation (William, Harry). How much of a better government we might have to mandate all higher level officials have four years or more of active service.
The Last Standing Knight
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No idea if the inedible slop story is true or not, but it wouldn't surprise me one bit if it was! Typical Navy man.....with almost as much a depraved sense of humor as we Marines.
