"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.'"
"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."
David Cameron had a high PSA result followed by a biopsy that confirmed prostate cancer. His wife urged him to get tested after they heard a public figure describe a diagnosis on the radio. Cameron called for a targeted screening programme to detect prostate cancer earlier, when treatment outcomes are likelier to be successful. Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in males in the UK, with about 55,000 new cases each year. The UK currently has no routine screening programme because of concerns about PSA test accuracy. Another public figure recently disclosed metastatic stage 4 prostate cancer.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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