A London-based surgeon of Indian origin has made medical history by successfully completing the UK's first remote robotic surgeries on patients in Gibraltar, approximately 2,400 km away.
While the palace has not specified the form of cancer, it said the 75-year-old monarch has started treatment and remains 'wholly positive'.
British monarch Queen Elizabeth II's husband Prince Philip underwent an exploratory operation on his abdomen on Friday and was "progressing satisfactorily" after the surgery.
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