King Charles’ Cancer Treatment Will Continue into the New Year, Is in a 'Very Positive Direction,' Palace Source Confirms

Mar. 15, 2025

King Charles at an event at his country home, Highgrove House, on Dec. 13, 2024.Photo:Chris Jackson - Pool/Getty

Chris Jackson - Pool/Getty

King Charles’ cancer treatment will continue into the New Year, but it is moving “in a very positive direction,” palace sources have confirmed.

Aides have signaled that Charles, 76, who has been under medical care for hiscancer diagnosissince early February, will continue treatment towards his one-year anniversary as a “managed condition.”

As the year comes to a close and Charles prepares for Christmas with many of his family around him, palace sources confirmed on Friday, Dec. 20, “His treatment has been moving in a positive direction and as a managed condition the treatment cycle will continue into next year.”

King Charles at an event in the gardens of his home, Highgrove House, on Dec. 13, 2024.Chris Jackson Pool/Getty

Chris Jackson Pool/Getty

“It’s very common for treatment to be ongoing for very long periods of time, as is the treatment that the Princess of Wales went through, which is an intense period of treatment over a year, and then it comes to a point where it’s on an end, and she’s on that recovery from some of the impacts of her treatment,” she said.

“So we’ve got immunotherapy, chemotherapy, surgery, hormone therapy. There are all sorts of different treatment modalities. And so it’s not surprising at all,” Lee added.

Charles was first hospitalized for a planned operation totreat an enlarged prostatein January. While in the hospital an as-yet-undisclosed cancer was discovered and histreatment startedon February 5. He cancelled all face-to-face engagements and onlyreturned to his more public royal dutiesin April, beginning with a visit to a cancer hospital in London with his wife,Queen Camilla.

King Charles chatting to a craftsman at Highgrove House on Dec. 13, 2024.Chris Jackson Pool/Getty

In a second cancer diagnosis for the family,Kate Middletonrevealed in March that she had also beenundergoing cancer treatmentfor around a month. In September, the Princess of Wales, 42,announced in an emotional video messagethat she had finished her chemotherapy treatment.

King Charles and Queen Camilla on Christmas Day 2023.Samir Hussein/WireImage

Samir Hussein/WireImage

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