The president-elect of the Italian Association of Medical Oncology, Massimo Di Maio, explains that it is not uncommon to incidentally discover the presence of a tumor during surgical operations or examinations conducted for other reasons. At the moment, the type and stage of the cancer are unknown, and no hypotheses can be made until an official announcement is made. Re Carlo has been diagnosed with a tumor that will keep him away from the public eye for some time. It is likely an incidental diagnosis, where the presence of a neoplasm is discovered by chance during an operation for an enlarged prostate.
Another possibility is the identification and removal of a bladder neoplasm; abnormal blood test results could also have led to a diagnosis of blood cancer. The official statement from Buckingham Palace states that the sovereign has begun a standard cycle of therapies, which are administered in cycles.