But all hope was not lost.<\/p>\n
Within weeks of attending an event at the House of Commons to raise awareness about clinical trials, Mr Strugnell was given the chance to try another new drug.<\/p>\n
Combined with hormone medication which cuts off his testosterone, the large blue tablets strive to shrink the size of a cancer \u2013 and they seem to be working.<\/p>\n
When Mr Strugnell started the treatment his PSA score \u2013 a metric which measures how large a patient’s prostate cancer is – was 177.<\/p>\n
But for the last six months, it has been between 10 and 17.<\/p>\n
“The lower it is the better, so I am really, really positive about this drug,” he said.<\/p>\n
“It’s not stopping me from doing anything and I am doing far more than a lot of people my age.<\/p>\n
“My whole life has changed – I have a lot more energy and enthusiasm and I am not thinking ‘I don’t know how long I’ve got’.<\/p>\n
“I am more positive now than I ever been.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But all hope was not lost. Within weeks of attending an event at the House of Commons to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[105,4348,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-207088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114731436146938765","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}