Monarch to Share Personal Address on Cancer in Nationwide Programme

The Monarch has filmed a intimate address regarding his experience with cancer, scheduled for transmission as part of this year's annual cancer awareness initiative, organised by medical research organisations and a major network.

Official sources stated the King would talk about his "healing process" as a cancer patient, in a recorded address on Friday at 8pm UK time.

The address, recorded at his London residence a fortnight ago, will emphasise the critical nature of preventative health checks to ensure more people detect the illness at an early stage.

This constitutes a infrequent public commentary on the health of the King, who has been undergoing regular treatment since his condition was announced in early last year. But it is thought improbable the King will specify his specific form of cancer.

Awareness Primary Goal

The Stand Up To Cancer initiative each year collects money for medical research and treatment and prompts people to get check-ups to boost the odds of an prompt identification.

The King's relative openness about his health challenge, and living with cancer, has been aimed to raise awareness and to get more people to get tested - and this will be escalated with this unusual royal involvement.

To date the King's primary strategy to his cancer has been to maintain his duties, preserving a full diary alongside his ongoing course of therapy, and he appears not to have wanted to be characterised by his condition.

The past twelve months has seen the King, 77, embarking on several international tours, notably to Italy and Canada, and receiving the largest volume of official guests to the UK for a generation, including the German president recently.

Friday's Special Show

Friday evening's charity show on television, featuring celebrities including several TV personalities, will urge people not to be scared of getting preventative tests.

All three have been affected by cancer - Davina McCall revealed recently she had had an operation for a tumour, while another presenter was treated for the illness in the past. Presenter Hills has previously spoken about his parent, who had stomach cancer and then later another illness.

The programme will appeal to the roughly 9m people in the UK who health organisations state are not current with public health checks, with an online checker to let people see if they are qualified for screenings for key health indicators.

In an bid to explain cancer checks and illustrate the benefit of timely identification there will be a direct feed from hospital departments at Addenbrooke's and Royal Papworth hospitals in Cambridge.

"I want to remove the anxiety from preventative tests and demonstrate everyone that they are not alone in this," commented a presenter.

The Landscape of Health Checks

Currently in the UK, there are several key publicly available checks - for major health concerns - offered to specific demographics.

A emerging preventative initiative is also being gradually implemented for anyone at high risk of contracting the disease, specifically targeting people of a certain age, who have a smoking history or used to.

Male patients may request specific tests, but there is not a universal scheme in place.

Funding Research

The Stand Up to Cancer campaign, which has collected £113m since 2012, is supporting multiple research studies with thousands of patients.

His Majesty, in a message for dignitaries at a reception for support groups in the spring, had discussed acknowledging the "overwhelming and at times alarming reality" for those diagnosed and their support networks.

But he stated his first-hand encounter of living with cancer had demonstrated that "the most difficult times of sickness can be illuminated by the greatest compassion," as he commended those who cared for cancer patients.

Official sources has not revealed what kind of cancer the King has, or what treatment he has received. The King's cancer was identified after he had had a prostate procedure.