King Charles III has been hospitalized in London for a medical process for the treatment of his enlarged prostate, Buckingham Palace said on Friday.
King Charles III has been hospitalized in London for a medical process of his prostate. Photo: Getty image.
An image report showed King Charles III when he got to the London Clinic around 9 a.m.
The King's treatment was postponed last week, soon after the news that Catherine, Prince William's wife had surgery in London Palace.
The king’s recovery is anticipated to be much faster, though the palace did not say how long he was expected to stay in the hospital. By announcing his elective prostate procedure in advance, the palace said, Charles, 75, hoped to encourage other men with similar symptoms to get checked.
“The king was this morning admitted to a London hospital for scheduled treatment,” the palace said in a statement. “His Majesty would like to thank all those who sent their good wishes over the past week, and is delighted to learn the diagnosis is having a positive impact on public health awareness.”
Benign prostate enlargement is common in men over age 50, according to Britain’s National Health Service. It can be found in up to 90 per cent of men over 70. Symptoms include difficulty urinating and urgency to urinate. It is not cancerous and it does not usually pose a serious health threat.
Treatment includes medication and changes to diet and lifestyle, as well as surgical procedures in more severe cases to remove excess tissue from the prostate gland. Buckingham Palace did not describe the procedure that Charles would undergo.
Medical experts said that the most common treatment was a transurethral resection of the prostate, in which a surgeon scrapes out the inside of the prostate gland, giving the urethra more space.
Charles’s planned treatment follows a period of troubling health news for the British royal family. In addition to Catherine, Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York and ex-wife of the king’s younger brother, Prince Andrew, said on Monday that she had been diagnosed with melanoma, a serious type of skin cancer.
It was her second cancer diagnosis within a year. Ms Ferguson, 64, had spoken publicly about her decision to undergo a mastectomy and reconstructive surgery last year after a breast cancer diagnosis in the summer.
The London Clinic, an elite private institution in the Marylebone neighbourhood of London, has treated other members of the royal family, as well as celebrities like the actress Elizabeth Taylor and foreign leaders like the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. John F. Kennedy, the future president, was told by doctors he had Addison’s disease while a patient at the hospital in 1947.
Catherine, Princess of Wales, remains hospitalized after abdominal surgery last week.
國王查理三世因攝護腺手術在英國住院
白金漢宮週五表示，國王查理三世已在倫敦住院治療前列腺肥大。
一份圖像報道顯示，國王查爾斯三世上午 9 點左右到達倫敦診所。
上週，威廉王子的妻子凱瑟琳在倫敦宮接受手術的消息傳出後不久，國王的治療被推遲。
國王的康復預計會更快，但王宮沒有透露他預計要在醫院住多久。 白金漢宮表示，75 歲的查爾斯透過提前宣布他的選擇性攝護腺手術，希望鼓勵其他有類似症狀的男性接受檢查。
白金漢宮在一份聲明中表示： “國王今天早上被送往倫敦一家醫院接受預定治療。” “國王陛下要感謝所有在過去一周送來良好祝愿的人，並很高興得知這一診斷對公眾健康意識產生了積極影響。”
據英國國家衛生服務中心稱，良性前列腺肥大在 50 歲以上的男性中很常見。 70 歲以上的男性中，高達 90% 的人會出現這種情況。症狀包括排尿困難和尿急。 它不是癌性的，通常不會構成嚴重的健康威脅。
治療包括藥物治療以及飲食和生活方式的改變，以及在更嚴重的情況下進行手術以去除前列腺的多餘組織。 白金漢宮沒有描述查爾斯將接受的程序。
醫學專家表示，最常見的治療方法是經尿道攝護腺切除術，也就是外科醫師刮除攝護腺內部，為尿道留出更多空間。
在查爾斯計劃接受治療之前，英國王室經歷了令人不安的健康消息。 除了凱瑟琳之外，約克公爵夫人、國王弟弟安德魯王子的前妻莎拉·弗格森週一表示，她被診斷出患有黑色素瘤，這是一種嚴重的皮膚癌。
這是她一年內第二次被診斷出癌症。 64 歲的弗格森女士去年夏天診斷出乳癌後，曾公開談論她決定接受乳房切除術和重建手術。
倫敦診所是倫敦馬里波恩附近的精英私人機構，曾治療過其他王室成員、女演員伊麗莎白·泰勒等名人和智利獨裁者奧古斯托·皮諾切特等外國領導人。 1947 年，未來的總統約翰·F·肯尼迪 (John F. Kennedy) 在住院期間被醫生告知他患有艾迪生病。
威爾斯王妃凱瑟琳上週接受腹部手術後仍在住院。
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