Why David Cameron’s calling for more cancer screening
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🗓️ 24 November 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Is it time for an NHS screening programme for prostate cancer?
The disease is the most common cancer affecting men in the UK and kills more than 12,000 men every year. A decision is expected to be made by the National Screening Council later this week.
Now, former prime minister Lord Cameron has become the latest high-profile figure to reveal his own diagnosis and has called for a national programme to target the groups most at risk.
But could an increase in overdiagnosis do more harm than good? Niall is joined by Sky’s science and medical correspondent Thomas Moore to discuss.
You can find out more information on prostate cancer at www.nhs.uk/conditions/prostate-cancer/
Producer: Araminta Parker
Editor: Mike Bovill
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up, David Cameron's Cancer Candor. |
| 0:03.7 | The former PM goes public with his prostate cancer diagnosis |
| 0:07.0 | and calls for a national screening program. |
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| 1:13.7 | Forward. We never want to hear, but that so many of us will. I'm afraid it's cancer. |
| 1:20.2 | David Cameron received his diagnosis a year ago, prostate cancer. |
| 1:24.4 | Thankfully, the treatment he's received has worked, but many are not so lucky. Hence, |
| 1:29.6 | he is now calling for a targeted screening program, one focusing on those at greater risk. He's |
| 1:35.7 | certainly not the only public figure to do so, of course. Cycling legend Sir Chris Hoy |
| 1:39.7 | received a terminal prostate cancer diagnosis recently and is calling for better screening and treatment, |
| 1:45.6 | as is former Sky News presenter, Damut Murnan. |
| 1:48.9 | To that end, the National Screening Council is meeting later this week to decide whether to |
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