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24th November 2025
08:25am GMT
Former Prime Minister, David Cameron, has revealed that he was diagnosed with prostate cancer.
Cameron has now called for a targeted screening programme.
Speaking to The Times, Cameron said: “You always hope for the best. You have a high PSA score – that’s probably nothing.
“You have an MRI scan with a few black marks on it. You think, ‘Ah, that’s probably OK.’But when the biopsy comes back, and it says you have got prostate cancer.
“You always dread hearing those words. And then literally as they’re coming out of the doctor’s mouth you’re thinking, ‘Oh, no, he’s going to say it. He’s going to say it. Oh God, he said it.’”
He added that he was urged to get tested by his wife, Samantha, after the pair heard the founder of Soho House, Nick Jones, discussing his diagnosis on the radio.
Cameron received focal therapy for treatment which uses electrical pulses to target and destroy cancer cells.
He's now called on the government to introduce screening to detect cancer earlier, when treatment is more likely to succeed.
He said: “I want to, as it were, come out. I want to add my name to the long list of people calling for a targeted screening programme.
“I don’t particularly like discussing my personal intimate health issues, but I feel I ought to. Let’s be honest. Men are not very good at talking about their health. We tend to put things off.”
Cameron has now had the all clear and is cancer-free.
Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers for men however there is no screening programme for the disease in the UK.
