Kate Middleton, Princess of Wales, announced in a recorded video on Friday that she is receiving preventive chemotherapy after being diagnosed with cancer following tests following scheduled abdominal surgery she underwent in mid-January.
In a video pre-recorded by the BBC in Windsor, and broadcast on the couple's social networks, Prince William's wife said that tests after the intervention revealed that cancer had been found, but she said that she was fine and getting stronger. .
“It's been an incredibly difficult couple of months for our entire family, but I've had a fantastic medical team who have taken very good care of me, so I'm very grateful,” Kate said in the video filmed on Wednesday.
“In January, I underwent major abdominal surgery in London and at the time my condition was thought to be non-cancerous. The surgery was successful. However, tests after the operation found that there was cancer. Therefore, my medical team recommended that I undergo preventive chemotherapy treatment and now I am in the early stages of that treatment,” the princess said in a two-minute and twenty-second video. She did not specify what type of cancer it was.
“Of course, this was a big shock, and Guillermo and I have been doing everything we can to process and manage this privately for the good of our young family ,” she said, in a video in which she appears thinner. , sitting on a garden bench.
“It has taken me time to recover from major surgery to be able to start my treatment,” he commented, in a video that seeks to put an end to weeks of speculation about his health, in the absence of official information. She also mentioned that it was a challenge to explain the illness to his three children, Jorge, Charlotte and Luis “in a way that was appropriate for them” and assure them that I will be fine.