{"id":649796,"date":"2026-06-21T00:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T00:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/649796\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T00:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T00:56:09","slug":"jeremy-clarkson-i-have-lunches-with-david-cameron-to-discuss-prostate-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/649796\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeremy Clarkson: I have lunches with David Cameron to discuss prostate cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Telegraph has been campaigning for targeted prostate screening, which would offer tests to men with a family history of disease, black men and those with high-risk genes.<\/p>\n<p>This approach has been backed by a national survey of urologists, the specialists who treat prostate cancer.<\/p>\n<p>But earlier this month, James Murray, the Health Secretary, accepted recommendations from advisers to restrict routine screening to a few thousand men and expanded a screening trial to include black men aged 45 to 74.<\/p>\n<p>Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men in the UK, with about 63,000 diagnoses and 12,000 deaths annually.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/tv\/2026\/06\/17\/clarksons-farm-amazon-prime-video-ep-7-8-review\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Speaking from a hospital bed<\/a> at the end of the Clarkson\u2019s Farm season finale, the presenter revealed he had experienced complications during treatment, which he told The Times had been caused by him resuming a course of tablets he had been taking for his earlier vascular and cardiac problems.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cThat was horrific and it was all my own fault. I\u2019d been on drugs for heart issues and I had to come off them during the cancer treatment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo or three weeks after the cancer operation, I thought I\u2019d better put myself back on those blood thinners. Big mistake, huge.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Telegraph has been campaigning for targeted prostate screening, which would offer tests to men with a family&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[21393,96,59,2503,50,47835,5438,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-649796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-clarksons-farm","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-jeremy-clarkson","tag-news","tag-prostate-cancer","tag-standard","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649796","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=649796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}