, reveals that he has stage 4 prostate cancer.show to speak about his cancer journey. He was diagnosed in September 2018, he shared, but it was not caught early. It has since spread to his bones and he can no longer walk. He's undergoing chemotherapy.
At first, he was treated with hormone therapy and he felt well. However, things took a turn amid the pandemic when he "missed going in for a test, which was not a good thing," His cancer mutated and he suffered fractures in his bones, and tumors up and down his spine. It led to paraplegia, or paralysis of the lower body. He's currently undergoing chemo, which is "aggressively" fighting the disease.
Dr. Matthew Rettig, a research scientist and oncologist at UCLA who treats Tyler, said, "With prostate cancer, it's a little bit different from other cancers in that when it is diagnosed early, it's almost always cured. When it's diagnosed late, it's rarely if ever cured."Rettig did genetic testing to determine that Tyler's illness was genetic, not environmental. The actor later learned that his sibling had prostate cancer, but hadn't shared his diagnosis.
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