King Charles III will attend hospital next week to be treated for an enlarged prostate. Aides said the King's condition was benign and he would be having a corrective procedure. According to the consultant urological surgeon Ben Challacombe the condition is "very common" and there is no need to be "unduly concerned" with patients normally recovering within two weeks. Report by Czubalam. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 I don't think we should be unduly concerned about this.
00:03 He is probably having, I might say I'm not in any way looking after him, I don't know
00:07 anything about his clinical situation, but he's probably having a prostate operation
00:12 as a keyhole type of operation.
00:15 And this is an operation that many people do in high volumes and the results are very
00:19 good so I don't think we should be unduly concerned.
00:22 But of course generally it is of course concerning that our king is having to have something
00:25 done.
00:26 Having a big prostate or prostate symptoms is very common.
00:30 Technically 80% of people who are 80 have some sort of urinary symptoms and many of
00:35 them will be on medications to shrink or relax the prostate and a proportion will need to
00:39 go on and have surgery for it if their symptoms get too severe.
00:44 I think it's really refreshing that he has shared these details because many men suffer
00:50 in silence.
00:51 Men are generally not very good at going to the doctor with potentially what they perceive
00:56 to be minor ailments or things that have been building up gradually over a long time and
01:00 hopefully this will raise the awareness to allow men who do have urinary symptoms to
01:06 go along and be checked out.
01:08 Usually you wouldn't know a man who had it who had it two weeks ago, there would be no
01:12 signs that they had it.
01:13 People recover very quickly but they just need a little bit of time and space to get
01:17 themselves back to normal.