King Charles talks about importance of having someone to talk to during cancer treatment

King Charles has stressed the importance of having someone to talk to during King Charles while on a visit to a hospital.

The King, 77, who has been undergoing treatment for an undisclosed form of cancer since February 2024, made the comment during a visit to the Sir Robert Ogden Macmillan Cancer Centre, located in York Hospital, England, overnight (AEST).

The King was at the centre to view a new multimillion-dollar redevelopment and meet patients and staff, and arrived at the hospital to cheers from patients and staff.

According to The Mirror, the King spoke to Diana Ellison, who told him she had lost her father in 2024.

"To cancer?" he asked, to which she replied "Yes".

"It's everywhere," he said.

She then told him the centre had offered support to herself and her family during her father's battle with cancer, to which the King replied, "It's so important to be able to talk".

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King Charles has been patron of the centre, which provides high-quality cancer treatments, and health and well-being services, since 1997.

A focal point of the redevelopment is a new garden, where the King was greeted with a kiss from his good friend, Lady Halifax. She and her husband, Lord Halifax, were major donors to the hospital and the new centre.

Lady Halifax introduced him to Angie Lunt, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2016. She was part of the community engagement group that developed plans for the centre.

"So they consulted you on all the details to make it all most effective?" The King asked Ms Lunt. "Well done, you."

He also met another patient, Louise Rhodes, who has stage four breast cancer and was also involved in the centre's design and development.

During the visit, the King helped plant a "Macmillan rose" bush in the new garden.

Photos from the visit were uploaded to the royal family's official Instagram page along with the comment, "Recognising the inspiring @macmillancancer patients and staff.

"His Majesty met staff and patients including local people with lived experience of cancer who contributed to the centre's design.

"The King also planted a rose in the garden, a new calm space created for visitors to enjoy nature during their time at the centre."

King Charles continues to have treatment for an undisclosed form of cancer that was discovered after he underwent surgery for an enlarged prostate in The London Clinic in January 2024.

He began treatment the following month, which was reduced in December 2025, when the King gave an update during a prerecorded message broadcast in the UK as part of the annual Stand Up To Cancer campaign.

"Indeed, today I am able to share with you the good news that thanks to early diagnosis, effective intervention and adherence to 'doctors' orders', my own schedule of cancer treatment can be reduced in the new year," he said.

"This milestone is both a personal blessing and a testimony to the remarkable advances that have been made in cancer care in recent years; testimony that I hope may give encouragement to the 50 per cent of us who will be diagnosed with the illness at some point in our lives."

The King's son, Prince William, has described 2024 as a brutal year thanks to the double cancer diagnoses of his father and wife.

Catherine was recovering from major abdominal surgery at the same time the King underwent his surgery in the same hospital in 2024.

She later revealed she too had subsequently been diagnosed with an undisclosed form of cancer and underwent a course of chemotherapy before announcing she was in remission in January 2025.

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