It’s anything but a Happy Halloween for “Flip or Flop” contractor Frank “The Tank” Miller.
Tarek El Moussa, star of the HGTV series, took to Instagram on Tuesday to offer an update on Miller, who’s currently battling multiple forms of cancer, delivering the grim news that Miller’s cancer has begun spreading again after immunotherapy, and is “working its way to his brain.”
“Frank really needs our prayers now more than ever. He was in immunotherapy for the past 5 months and it was the only treatment that stopped his cancer from spreading,” El Moussa wrote, noting that the treatments that Miller has undergone “caused his face and body to swell 1o times the size it [sic] should be.”
El Moussa, who himself is a survivor of both thyroid and testicular cancer, continued, ” The immunotherapy was the final treatment that his oncologist could offer with his health and miraculously the cancer stopped spreading. That was up until 2 weeks ago he got another pet scan to see if the cancer was still at a halt and unfortunately that wasn’t the case. The cancer began spreading again and is working its way to his brain.”
While El Moussa reported that Miller’s doctors “don’t have any other options” at this time, Miller has been accepted into a clinical trial with the Lazarus Foundation “and is now waiting to begin treatment with them.”
Miller’s induction into the trial was delayed by an Oct. 23 incident during which Miller contracted a lung infection so bad that it “caused a severe pneumonia … his body went into shock and he was incoherent and fell off his bed causing him to fracture his head in two places.”
The contractor is now in stable condition after being hospitalized, El Moussa added.
Despite the grim account, El Moussa ended his report on an upbeat note.
“Frank said that ‘Dying is not an option’ and he sure means it. He is a fighter and so much of his strength comes from his family, friends and supporters. Please keep him in your thoughts and prayers,” El Moussa wrote.
Read El Moussa’s full post below.