The princess spoke to patients and staff at the hospital about the importance of support which goes beyond the physical.<\/p>\n
“I had incredible care here and support from a huge team and I’m really, really grateful on a personal level,” she said.<\/p>\n
“But also the holistic care, the treatments and therapeutic support on the outside is so important. <\/p>\n
“It makes a big difference – the impact of nature, the impact of good nutrition, good ongoing support around you when it’s really difficult to manage the trials and tribulations of medical treatments,” she reflected.<\/p>\n
Catherine sat down and chatted to those receiving treatment at the hospital, including patients with breast cancer, head and neck cancer and a brain tumour.<\/p>\n
“When you first get cancer, you’re very aware of the physical impact,” a patient told her. “The mental impact comes after.”<\/p>\n
He said it had been a “lifesaver” to be able to talk to a therapist at the hospital, because “there is only so much you can say to your friends and family”.<\/p>\n
The princess agreed: “Cancer is not just the physical changes your body is going through.<\/p>\n
“There’s a mind-body aspect that changes who you are… having professionals who can help you navigate that is really essential,” she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The princess spoke to patients and staff at the hospital about the importance of support which goes beyond…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":767347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-767346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}