Lord David Cameron has revealed he was diagnosed with prostate cancer after going for a health check-up with his GP.
The former Prime Minister, 59, said he had been told to get checked out by his wife after she heard about Soho House founder Nick Jones’s struggle with the disease on the radio.
Lord Cameron said his prostate specific antigen (PSA) test came out worryingly high, before his biopsy confirmed he had the illness.
Revealing it has been a busy year, he told The Times: ‘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.’ Then came the next decision. Do you get treatment? Or do you watch and wait?’
Now, the politician has called for screening to be offered to men most at risk of the disease.
‘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,’ he said.
Lord David Cameron has revealed he was diagnosed with prostate cancer after going for a health check-up with his GP