{"id":287850,"date":"2025-11-28T12:48:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T12:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/287850\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T12:48:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T12:48:11","slug":"experts-expected-to-advise-against-routine-prostate-cancer-screening-for-majority-of-men-in-uk-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/287850\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts expected to advise against routine prostate cancer screening for majority of men in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Cameron reveals treatment for prostate cancerpublished at 12:36 GMT<\/p>\n

12:36 GMT<\/p>\n

\"DavidImage source, PA Media<\/p>\n

Earlier this week former Prime Minister David Cameron revealed he has been treated for prostate cancer.<\/p>\n

Cameron, 59, told the Times newspaper his wife had insisted he go for a check-up after they listened to a BBC radio interview with entrepreneur Nick Jones, who was campaigning for more men to be tested after being diagnosed himself.<\/p>\n

“I sort of thought, well, this has happened to you, and you should lend your voice to it… I had a scan. It helped me discover something that was wrong. It gave me the chance to deal with it,” Cameron said.<\/p>\n

Cameron had a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test earlier this year, followed by an MRI scan and a biopsy. He was then treated with focal therapy, which targets the area where the tumour is present using methods such as ultrasound waves to destroy cancer cells.<\/p>\n

He told the newspaper he wanted to use his platform to support a call by Prostate Cancer Research, a charity which counts Mr Jones – founder of private members’ club chain Soho House – as a trustee, for screening to be offered to high-risk men.<\/p>\n

The National Screening Committee is expected to advise against most men being screened for the cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Cameron reveals treatment for prostate cancerpublished at 12:36 GMT 12:36 GMT Image source, PA Media Earlier this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-287850","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}