David Cameron reveals he has been treated for prostate cancer

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Former premier curate Lord Cameron has revealed helium has been treated for prostate cancer.

The erstwhile Tory leader, who was PM from 2010 until 2016, and overseas caput from November 2023 until past year's wide election, went nationalist successful an interrogation with The Times.

The 59-year-old joins Olympic cycling champion Sir Chris Hoy, ex-Sky News presenter Dermot Murnaghan and different erstwhile PM, Rishi Sunak, successful campaigning for amended diagnosis and treatment.

He has present had the each wide and is cancer-free.

Lord Cameron went to the GP for a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) trial - which looks for proteins associated with prostate crab - aft his woman Samantha urged him to marque an appointment. His effect showed his numbers were worryingly high.

Recalling the infinitesimal when, aft a follow-up biopsy, helium was told helium had cancer, Lord Cameron said: "You ever dread proceeding those words.

"And past virtually arsenic they're coming retired of the doctor's rima you're thinking, 'Oh, no, he's going to accidental it. He's going to accidental it. Oh God, helium said it'. Then came the adjacent decision. Do you get treatment? Or bash you ticker and wait?"

Lord Cameron said his older member Alexander died of pancreatic crab astatine the aforesaid property helium is now. "It focuses the mind," helium said. "I decided rather quickly. I wanted to determination up and that's what I did."

The erstwhile premier curate opted to person focal therapy, a attraction which delivers electrical pulses via needles to destruct the cancerous cells.

He was fixed a post-treatment MRI scan astir the clip the US struck a atomic works successful Iran past year. "It was the aforesaid week arsenic Donald Trump was talking astir the weaponry harm assessment... I got my ain weaponry harm assessment," helium quipped.

Explaining wherefore helium has shared his diagnosis, Lord Cameron said: "I've got a platform. This is thing we've truly got to deliberation about, speech about, and if necessary, enactment on.

"I privation to, arsenic it were, travel out. I privation to adhd my sanction to the agelong database of radical calling for a targeted screening programme."

Lord Cameron is backing a telephone by the foundation Prostate Cancer Research for the instauration of screening for men astatine precocious hazard of the disease.

"I don't peculiarly similar discussing my idiosyncratic intimate wellness issues, but I consciousness I ought to," helium continued. "Let's beryllium honest. Men are not precise bully astatine talking astir their health. We thin to enactment things off.

"We're embarrassed to speech astir thing similar the prostate, due to the fact that it's truthful intricately connected with intersexual wellness and everything else. I benignant of thought, well, this has happened to you, and you should lend your dependable to it.

"I would consciousness atrocious if I didn't travel guardant and accidental that I've had this experience. I had a scan. It helped maine observe thing that was wrong. It gave maine the accidental to woody with it."

Approximately 12,000 men successful the UK dice from prostate crab each year, making it the country's biggest antheral cancer.

An ongoing proceedings is looking astatine however healthcare professionals could usage PSA tests with different assessments to amended screening.

Lord Cameron's interrogation comes up of a gathering connected Thursday, which could spot the National Screening Committee springiness the greenish airy for the archetypal NHS screening programme for prostate cancer.

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