What kind of cancer does Kate have? Doctor says likely Stage 1

is the statement that resonated around the world Kate Middleton now diagnosed with

cancer

and receiving chemotherapy, joining me now is OB-GYN Dr. Greg Marchin Dr. Marchin I know we tried to contact you before regarding the

cancer

itself, she made a statement saying that it happens to be in the early

stage

s for those of us who are new to this, discovering this and hearing about this for the first time, walk us through the process regarding the early

stage

s,

what

do you mean? exactly? Well, thank you for having us I, yes, I also heard the very sad news a moment ago that the Princess of Wales has been diagnosed with cancer and she mentioned in that video I saw that she recently posted that it was now in the early stages.

It's a little difficult to speculate since she asked us to respect her privacy, so we don't know exactly

what

cancer she is talking about, but in very general terms, cancer will generally be classified into four stages and the first stage will be. being when the cancer really hasn't moved anywhere, hasn't invaded any organ system, something we call metastasis in medicine, where the cancer travels, which unfortunately means it's more of an advanced cancer and less chance of survival, so I would measure By saying that he is in the early stages and that the chemotherapy he is receiving is preventive, those were his own words.

I assume from those statements you are making, you are talking about an early stage cancer and probably when they identified the cancer at the time of surgery, We saw that it was limited in the distance it traveled and most

likely

they could remove everything what they could see at the time of surgery. We also know that it is official that she spent about 13 days in the hospital after or during that surgery. What I want to mention is that the standard should be an indication that something was really wrong. No and this has been much discussion in the medical community.

It is definitely not standard with medical care in developed countries to spend two weeks in a hospital, after an elective surgery and in this case, by elective we mean a surgery that was planned, not an emergency surgery, that certainly will not be standard anywhere in the developed world, so it was very disconcerting when she posted before the surgery, that she had this abdominal procedure planned that was going to require two weeks of recovery. There really is no such procedure except for cancer, and she claimed that it was not cancer except for cancer and maybe some transplant surgeries there really is no abdominal procedure.

That will take two weeks of recovery unless there are some complications, so it was very disconcerting that she said that before the surgery and now we

have

the diagnosis that it was actually cancer, so that really ties things together and goes a long way. makes more sense, uh, but no, with advances in surgical sciences, as a member of the American College of Surgeons, I can tell you that hospital statistics after surgery

have

never been shorter and most patients for most surgeries can Le very quickly, uh, obviously, Kate Middleton is a royalty. Her experience is quite different from yours and mine, not having said that, the question is how

does

that work with respect to her team of

doctor

s going through the process of informing her that she has actually been diagnosed with cancer.

Can you explain that to us? actual procedure as to what the

doctor

s would say, well, it's a little difficult since I don't know exactly what type of cancer we're talking about, but chances are she went into surgery knowing they were going to remove it. some

kind

of disaster that had the potential to be cancer uh and in a case like this where they took all the necessary precautions to be sure with the diagnosis uh they would have had a pathologist involved to review the slides um and and I'm sure she knew beforehand the possibilities, but one of the most difficult things you can do as a doctor is to have to give a patient a very, very bitter diagnosis, a very unfortunate diagnosis like cancer, but in this case it sounds. like she had thought a lot beforehand knowing what procedure she was going to have and the doctor probably had plenty of opportunity to tell her about the possible prognosis and again I only have the video that you have.

It's also been seen, so I don't know exactly what type of cancer or at what exact stage, but in a case like this, most cancers that are caught early and can be treated with medical and surgical means have very good outcomes, so that if I were saying For a patient in this situation, I would trust the good side of the news, which is that we realized this early. I want to keep the patient's spirits up and I want her to be ready to fight and ready to fight this cancer diagnosis and let her know that the team is there to help her doctor, you just mentioned the video, the video that saw, the video that I've seen and the video now, maybe most of the world has seen her, she looks

kind

of fragile and that's just That said, my statement also mentioned that she underwent premature chemotherapy.

Is there any way to tell that that's really happening in terms of her appearance, the fragile aspect of it all? What is that talking about? Well, my specialty in medicine will be minimally invasive gynecological surgery, so yes, unfortunately she has the appearance of someone who has undergone abdominal surgery that could not be performed by minimally invasive means or was one that was simply too difficult or there was too much adhesive disease to do it through minimally invasive means, so he has that look of someone who probably had a big midline incision, to complete a surgery. I can't speculate if she has received chemotherapy or not. however, that's harder to see and those symptoms of having Hado chemotherapy are a little easier to hide than the symptoms you have when you have major abdominal surgery, but yes, from the look of him he looks like a patient typical. who had major abdominal surgery and had to recover in the hospital with all the associated recovery elements, you know, like making your arms and legs work, those kinds of physical therapies that we do to help you recover after surgery and like someone.

Who performs minimally invasive gynecological surgery? You know, that's the whole point of my specialty. We try to avoid those types of long recoveries and try to use minimally invasive procedures whenever we can, but it seems like this is one of those cases. where minimally invasive surgery simply wasn't available or developed to cure whatever this was once again, if you're joining us, we're talking to obgy and Dr. Greg Marchin, of course, breaking news time heard around the world. the world Kate Middleton now diagnosed with cancer according to her undergoing chemotherapy. A part of the video she posted, she made a statement to the doctor saying that she is now being treated by a team of doctors.

You have about two minutes left, but with that said, team of doctors is that standard practice typically for someone like you or me, would we really be dealing with just one doctor or in this case because she's royalty? It turns out that she is dealing with a team of doctors, well, it's a little difficult for me. To speculate on what care is like in the UK, they have a slightly more socialized system than ours, but no, it wouldn't be unusual in the US for a patient with a cancer diagnosis to have a team of doctors. taking care of him or her the team approach is used in many large facilities throughout the United States and this in this case is a little difficult because I don't know the exact cancer that is being treated, but I am going to allude to the example of a breast cancer. ovary where you might have a gynecologic oncologist perform the surgery and that team of doctors would have handled the surgical part and then you might have a different oncologist handling the chemotherapy. and then even a third group of doctors with radiation oncology if radiation was necessary to help treat the cancer.

Certainly, in the US, a team of doctors to treat cancer is very common, and women, especially in the United States. They should be aware that we have some of the most advanced treatments for cancer that the world has ever seen, so cancer patients should not feel alone and should be aware that every day there are new discoveries about cancer treatment, one more time. The most optimistic thing we can say here is that you caught it early and it's good that we were joined by none other than obgy and Dr. Greg Marchin here at Fox 5. Liv thanks you for taking the time to help us and join us. her specialty around this topic sir, thank you for inviting me.