The King Charles has visited a new specialist medical centre for cancer patients in York, where he met cancer patients and staff who have worked on the £2.4m redevelopment of the Sir Robert Ogden Macmillan Cancer Centre. The monarch, who is still receiving treatment for an undisclosed form of cancer he was diagnosed with in 2024, was cheered and applauded during his visit.
The King Charles has visited a new specialist medical centre for patients in York , where he met cancer patients and staff who have worked on the £2.4m redevelopment of the Sir Robert Ogden Macmillan Cancer Centre .
The monarch, who is still receiving treatment for an undisclosed form of cancer he was diagnosed with in 2024, was cheered and applauded during his visit. He has been patron of Macmillan Cancer Support since 1997, the charity which provides wraparound support to those affected by cancer. Among those he met was Louise Rhodes, from Hopgrove in York, who is living with stage 4 secondary breast cancer and was involved in the centre's design and development.
Meeting the King with her mother, Diana Ellison, she told the King how she had lost her father in 2024.
'To cancer? ' he asked her. 'Yes,' she replied. 'It's everywhere,' he said.
She spoke of how the centre had been a major support to her and her family throughout.
'It's so important to be able to talk,' the monarch told her. The King was joined by Colm Gough, the Macmillan personalised cancer care lead, to plant a yellow 'Macmillan rose' which Charles dug around with a spade to cover its roots in soil. He told Charles: 'We've been going on making silly NHS decisions and Angie's been reminding us of what's really needed.
' More than 70 local people with experience of cancer fed into the new centre's designs. During his visit, the King met people living with cancer for whom the centre had been a 'lifeline' during treatment and heard about their roles in shaping the new facility, including the services it will offer and its design, from the layout and the furniture, to the colour schemes and the artwork with the aim of making it a calming, welcoming space.
As he made his way through the hospital corridors, shaking hands with staff and patients and asking people how they were faring in the heat, Charles was mobbed by well-wishers wanting to take pictures and film him on their phones. Hundreds of people gathered in the main reception to see him, where he met more Macmillan nurses and the charity's fundraising staff.
Charles, who was praised for his 'innate understanding that we need to be in harmony with nature', also toured the large pens where dozens of squirrels are bred and kept for the project. The King was presented with a framed photograph of a red squirrel by field ecologist Erin Thomas, who said she took the picture herself at the Yorkshire Arboretum, at nearby Castle Howard.
After the visit, Ms Lunt said: 'When I was going through cancer, the centre was an absolute lifeline. It was pivotal in my recovery, helping me manage ongoing health issues and supporting my mental wellbeing. I can't stress enough how important these centres are.
'They offer a safe, welcoming, non-clinical space, somewhere to sit, reflect, and come to terms with a diagnosis before returning home. Support services like this are essential to coping with cancer, both during treatment and long after. We need places like this now and in the future for anyone affected by cancer
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