A dad needs to raise £18,500 for revolutionary treatment after being diagnosed with prostate cancer, but being told the therapy is not available on the NHS. Consultants have told Andrew Wootten, 58, they will monitor the cancer rather than remove it, but Andrew wants to try focal therapy - which is still yet to be approved by the NHS.
Now the driver is hoping to raise enough cash to fund the treatment - as he is haunted by the death of his 69-year-old dad Stan from prostate cancer. Andrew told StokeOnTrentLive : "The NHS thinks it is in my best interests not to treat it because I am considered young and the side effects are too extreme to do anything at this point.
"This is something very unsettling to me as 16 years ago my dad had the same diagnosis and the treatment has not progressed any further since. My father was 64 years old when he was diagnosed and they did what is called 'active surveillance' - and this is what they would like to do with me too.
