Princess of Wales shares touching moment with cancer patients as she talks candidly of ‘life-changing’ treatment

Kate shares touching moment with cancer patientsPA

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00:00It's actually the fact that this is actually as a hub, it's a place to reach out to work.

00:11You know, people think I don't think it's actually transformed.

00:15I don't know, actually that sense of getting through this,

00:18you are saying that sense of superficial difficulty of getting through.

00:23Can I introduce you to these?

00:27How are you involved in?

00:30So I had excellent care of clinical cancer.

00:34I finished just about a year ago.

00:36But I suffered the effects of radiotherapy fatigue,

00:40but felt that I couldn't bother with it because it was cancer.

00:45I noticed there's a whole phase where you've finished your treatment.

00:48You're done.

00:50Everybody expects you, right, you're finished.

00:52Your time, you're better.

00:53Yes.

00:54And it's not the case at all.

00:56No, and then they sank down a little bit because of my job.

00:59You know, you're not necessarily in the clinical team any longer,

01:03but you're not able to function normally at home as you pass what's used to.

01:09And actually someone to help talk you through that,

01:12show you and guide you through that sort of phase that comes after you.

01:16And I think it's really valuable and really underrated,

01:20especially to have a space like this here,

01:23you know, for patients, not only during,

01:27but also on that recovery journey.

01:30It's very discombobulating, I think,

01:32that time when you finish active treatment

01:35because there is a lot of activity and, you know...

01:38I think it's very important.

01:39It's very important.