King Charles reassures public he’s in good health during tour of London cancer centre

Australian Community Media

King Charles spoke with patients and staff on his visit to the University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre in London. It’s his first in-person public royal function since he began cancer treatment.

Transcript

00:00So, Your Majesty, this is Sally Poe. Sally's in charge of our Targeted Lung Health Check

00:04Screening Programme, where we're trying to diagnose cancers earlier,

00:08and the more cancers we diagnose earlier, the more patients we can cure. Sally, over to you.

00:13Hi. Yeah, we just do lots of low-dose CT scans and check the health of the patient's lungs,

00:19and we can detect any early signs of lung cancer and offer them treatments, which is normal

00:24treatment. So, the trouble is to get a lot of people early?

00:29Yeah. So, we have to invite the GP, give us the name, all the details, and they get invited to

00:36the programme. It's a case of people want to come to the screening programme. But lots of people

00:42have signed up. And do you get signed up?

00:45She's got two pairs. This is one.

00:50Possibly due to the medication which I am on, but I have to believe in that.

Category

Transcript

Recommended