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FORMER Trinidad and Tobago national goalkeeper and ESPN analyst Neil “Shaka” Hislop has revealed that he has been battling an aggressive form of prostate cancer for the past year-and-a-half.

In an emotional video posted to Instagram yesterday, the former Premier League goalkeeper told fans, “I have a story to tell,” before detailing the diagnosis that has changed his life.

“Roughly 18 months ago, I went for my annual physical and insisted on a PSA test (a blood test that measures prostate-specific antigen, a protein made by prostate cells), as I always do. This time around, though, my PSA was elevated. An MRI and biopsy quickly determined that I had a fairly aggressive prostate cancer. A year ago, almost to the day, December 6 to be exact, I had a prostatectomy (radical surgical removal of all or part of the prostate gland), and I thought that was it,” he said. “Then, six months later, my PSA was again on the rise, and another scan showed that my prostate cancer had spread to my pelvic bone.”