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Catherine, Princess of Wales, Says She’s Being Treated for Cancer
- Illness discovered during her January abdominal surgery
- ‘This of course came as a huge shock,’ princess says
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Princess Catherine is being treated for cancer, she said in a video statement, shedding light on a royal health crisis that has been the subject of intense media speculation in Britain and beyond.
Catherine, the Princess of Wales and wife to the heir to the British throne, Prince William, said Friday that her scheduled abdominal surgery in January uncovered the presence of cancer. She has subsequently been undergoing “preventative” chemotherapy, she said without elaborating on the type of cancer or its severity.