Princess Kate announces she is in remission from cancer – Boston News, Weather, Sports [Video]

LONDON (AP) — The Princess of Wales said that her cancer is in remission Tuesday, following a visit to hospital where she received treatment earlier this year.

In a statement on social media, the princess offered her heartfelt thanks to those who helped her and her husband Prince William.

“We couldn’t have asked for more,’’ she wrote. “The care and advice we have received throughout my time as a patient has been exceptional.’’

Kate, as she is commonly known, conducted the solo engagement at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London, a world-leading state-of-the art cancer center known for its pioneering research. It hadn’t been previously disclosed that she had been treated there.

“I was just saying, coming in the front entrance here, having made so many quiet, private visits, actually it’s quite nice,” she said after arriving at the hospital’s main entrance.

Her Kensington Palace office stressed that she would continue to return to public-facing engagements,albeit gradually. The palace described the visit as …