{"id":166496,"date":"2026-05-12T13:57:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=166496"},"modified":"2026-05-12T13:57:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:57:43","slug":"king-charles-iii-opens-up-about-an-unusual-side-effect-of-his-cancer-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/king-charles-iii-opens-up-about-an-unusual-side-effect-of-his-cancer-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"King Charles III opens up about an unusual side effect of his cancer treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a recent visit to Guy\u2019s Cancer Centre, <strong>King Charles III<\/strong> opens up about an unusual side effect of his cancer treatment, empathizing with one of the patients he interacted with.<\/p>\n<p>On May 11th, the British monarch, who is undergoing treatment for an undisclosed type of cancer, celebrated the 300 years of <strong>Guy\u2019s Hospital<\/strong> with a visit where he met many patients, including Raymond Burgess, who was undergoing chemotherapy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-166510\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/King-Charles-empathizes-with-another-patient-undergoing-chemotherapy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/King-Charles-empathizes-with-another-patient-undergoing-chemotherapy.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/King-Charles-empathizes-with-another-patient-undergoing-chemotherapy-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/King-Charles-empathizes-with-another-patient-undergoing-chemotherapy-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/King-Charles-empathizes-with-another-patient-undergoing-chemotherapy-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/King-Charles-empathizes-with-another-patient-undergoing-chemotherapy-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/King-Charles-empathizes-with-another-patient-undergoing-chemotherapy-860x484.jpg 860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Amid their conversation, the patient confessed that the treatment usually left him with a <strong>bad taste in his mouth<\/strong>, and King Charles III instantly related by saying, <em><strong>&#8220;It&#8217;s an awful sort of metallic taste,&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> and added, <em><strong>&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t exactly help with eating.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The head of state was <strong>diagnosed with cancer in 2024<\/strong> and has continued to receive treatment into this year. However, according to a message in December, there has been a positive development in his health journey, reducing his 2026 treatments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a recent visit to Guy\u2019s Cancer Centre, King Charles III opens up about an unusual side effect of his cancer treatment, empathizing with one of the patients he interacted with. On May 11th, the British monarch, who is undergoing treatment for an undisclosed type of cancer, celebrated the 300 years of Guy\u2019s Hospital with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":166509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1795],"tags":[1881],"tmauthors":[3732],"class_list":{"0":"post-166496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-royal-family","9":"tag-king-charles-iii"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166496"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166511,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166496\/revisions\/166511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166496"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=166496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}