Former British Prime Minister David Cameron He revealed that he received treatment Prostate cancer Which was discovered last year.
This is what he said during an interview with the newspaper The times Which was published this Monday. “I want to, so to speak, come out of the closet. I want to add my name to the long list of people asking for a job. Screening programmeHe announced that he had prostate cancer.
The conservative politician stated that she was his wife, Samantha CameronWhich prompted him to consult a doctor about this disease after hearing a story on the radio Interview with Nick Jonesfounder of the Soho House empire, in which he explains how he took a prostate test in 2022, discovered and treated his cancer, so he thought other men should get the test.
“You get an MRI with some black marks. And you say to yourself, ‘Oh, it’s probably good.’ But what when the biopsy comes back and says you have prostate cancer?” The times.
“You’re always afraid to hear those words. Then literally when they come out of the doctor’s mouth, you think, ‘Oh no, he’ll say so. He will say so. Oh my God, he said that!. Then came the next decision: Do you receive treatment? Or are you waiting?” Cameron continued.
Last year was “very busy” for the politician. After the results of the PSA test and biopsy, he did not wait to undergo treatment. His older brother Alexander died of pancreatic cancer at the same age as Cameron. “It helps me focus my mind. I decided quickly. I wanted to move forward and that’s what I did.“He declares.
“I don’t really like to talk about my intimate health issues, but I think I should,” she says. “Let’s be honest. Men are not good at talking about their health. We tend to procrastinate. We feel embarrassed to talk about something like the prostate, because it is closely related to sexual health And everything else. “I thought, ‘Well, this happened to you and you need to talk about it.’
Cameron, who returned to politics to be Foreign Secretary in Rishi Sunak’s government, from 2023 to 2024, explained that he had undergone surgery. Focal therapy is less invasive than radiotherapyWhere needles are used to direct electrical pulses and destroy cancer cells. For him at least, it seems to have worked: “It was a huge relief. It was a great moment,” he recalls of the day the post-treatment MRI results were announced.