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I had a PET (PSMA) scan on Tuesday 8th August and it shows a lot more cancer has spread through the bones than the previous (less accurate) cat scans had shown.

The PET scan has only been available for just over a year here in the US and gives much more accuracy on where the prostate cancer cells have spread.

I met with Professor Wang at UNC Hospital in Chapel Hill yesterday and I was given two choices of treatment.

The first was not to have any more treatments, the reason being that my health has been significantly weakened by the last two failed treatments since last November – they were radium 223 and a second chemotherapy.

My lungs have been scarred and my heart is deteriorating with the stress of the treatments.

Professor Wang would allow me to have the newly approved FDA PSMA treatment, but I wouldn’t be strong enough to have any more treatments after that, and that treatment would need to start within weeks.

So that’s the situation for right now – I am leaning towards giving the PSMA treatment my best shot.

Again, many thanks for all your support on this through the years.

It is as it is - and (yet) another challenge in life.

I am at peace with the situation.

Ed Harrison