“I’m 60. It’s something I’ve always been cognizant of, and my doctor and I talk about it every annual visit,” he continued. “And I’m sharing it all with my 26-year-old son. Maybe I’m oversharing at times — lol — but he needs to know.”
The good news, Harris added, is that his PET scan showed no signs that the cancer has spread. Depending on what doctors find during the procedure, he hopes to return to work “in a month or so.”
“My goal in sharing this is to join the many others who also want to normalize this conversation and hopefully provide a bit of guidance and preparation, just as it has been offered to me,” he wrote.
About 1 in 8 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime, according to the American Cancer Society (ACS).