Nov. 24 (UPI) -- Former British Prime Minister David Cameron announced that he has early-stage prostate cancer, and called for more screenings in the country.
Cameron, 59, took a prostate-specific antigen blood test, which screens for proteins that show up with prostate cancer. Because his PSA was high, he had a biopsy, which showed he had cancer.
The United Kingdom doesn't have a regular prostate cancer screening program because of concerns about the accuracy of the PSA test.
Cameron told the Times that he and his wife listened to a BBC radio interview with entrepreneur Nick Jones. Jones had been diagnosed and was pushing for more men to get screened. Cameron's wife insisted that he get a test.
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