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King Charles is sharing a rare update about his health. In a prerecorded message on Channel 4\u2019s Stand Up To Cancer<\/a> broadcast on Friday, the English monarch said he would reduce his cancer treatments in the New Year, People<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n King Charles, who took over the throne after the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II,<\/a> in 2022, publicly shared that he was receiving cancer treatments<\/a> in February 2024, less than a month after undergoing a procedure for an enlarged prostate<\/a>. The type of cancer King Charles has has not been disclosed; however, Buckingham Palace stated that he does not have prostate cancer.<\/p>\n \u201cThis 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 fifty percent of us who will be diagnosed with the illness at some point in our lives,\u201d he said in the prerecorded message on the broadcast.<\/p>\n King Charles also emphasized the importance of early detection, noting that more than 9 million people in the U.K. are not up to date on their cancer screenings. He said that learning of his cancer early on made a difference in his own journey and enabled him to \u201ccontinue leading a full and active life, even while undergoing treatment.\u201d He encouraged the use of a new national Screening Checker tool, which helps navigate U.K. residents through breast, bowel and cervical cancer screenings.<\/p>\n King Charles is not the only member of the Royal Family to undergo cancer treatment. In March 2024, Kate Middleton, known as Catherine, Princess of Wales, shared that she had abdominal surgery earlier that year, and that the operation found that \u201ccancer had been present.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMy medical team therefore advised that I should undergo a course of preventative chemotherapy and I am now in the early stages of that treatment,\u201d she said at the time.<\/p>\n In a September 2024 Instagram post<\/a>, the royal updated followers on her health journey, stating that she is finished with chemotherapy and that doing what she can to stay cancer-free is her focus. In January, she posted on X<\/a> that her cancer is now in remission<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n