Former President Joe Biden speaks during the defenders, counselors and representatives of the bipartisan conference disabled in the Magnificent Mile of Sofitel Chicago on Tuesday, April 15, 2025.
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Former President Joe Biden was diagnosed with prostate cancer, said his office on Sunday.
Biden was seen last week by doctors after urinary symptoms and a prostate nodule was found. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer on Friday, and cancer cells have spread to the bone.
“While this represents a more aggressive form of the disease, cancer seems to be sensitive to hormones, allowing effective management,” said his office. “The president and his family are reviewing the treatment options with their doctors.”
Prostate cancers receive a score called Gleason score that measures, on a scale of 1 to 10, how cancer cells are seen compared to normal cells. Biden's office said his score was 9, suggesting that his cancer is one of the most aggressive.
When prostate cancer spreads to other parts of the body, bones are often spread. Metastasis cancer is much more difficult to treat than localized cancer because it can be difficult for medicines to reach all tumors and completely eliminate the disease.
However, when prostate cancers need hormones to grow, as in the case of Biden, they can be susceptible to the treatment that deprives hormone tumors.
Biden's health, 82, was a dominant concern among voters during his time as president. After a calamito debate performance in June while looking for re -election, Biden left his offer for a second term. The then vice president Kamala Harris became the nominee and lost to Republican Donald Trump, who returned to the White House after a four -year pause.
But in recent days, Biden rejected concerns about his age despite informing Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson's new book that the assistants had protected the public since the reach of their decline while working as president.
In February 2023, Biden took a skin lesion from his chest that was a basal cell carcinoma, a common form of skin cancer. And in November 2021, they were removed a polyp of his colon that was a benign, but potentially precancer lesion.
In 2022, Biden converted a “Moishot Cancer” into one of the priorities of its administration with the aim of reducing the mortality rate for cancer in the next 25 years. The initiative was a continuation of his work as vice president to address a disease that had killed his eldest son, Beau.
