Former Prime Minister David Cameron has shared the ‘terrifying’ moment he was told he had prostate cancer.

Speaking to The Times , Mr Cameron recalled how his wife had urged him to take a prostate specific antigen (PSA) test and his results had been ‘worryingly high’.

He said: ‘You always hope for the best. 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.’

The 59-year-old revealed he was diagnosed three years ago and has since had the all-clear, after undergoing ‘focal’ therapy, which uses electric pulses to destroy cancerous cells.

Now he is pushing for a national programme of testing to detect the deadly disease that claims

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