Joe Biden diagnosed with prostate cancer
By: Chicago Tribune (CNBC)
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Former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, his office said 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, with the cancer cells having spread to the bone.
"While this represents a more aggressive form of the disease, the cancer appears to be hormone-sensitive which allows for effective management," his office said. "The President and his family are reviewing treatment options with his physicians."
Prostate cancers are given a score called a Gleason score that measures, on a scale of 1 to 10, how the cancerous cells look compared with normal cells. Biden's office said his score was 9, suggesting his cancer is among the most aggressive.
When prostate cancer spreads to other parts of the body, it often spreads to the bones. Metastasized cancer is much harder to treat than localized cancer because it can be hard for drugs to reach all the tumors and completely root out the disease.
However, when prostate cancers need hormones to grow, as in Biden's case, they can be susceptible to treatment that deprives the tumors of hormones.
The health of Biden, 82, was a dominant concern among voters during his time as president. After a calamitous debate performance in June while seeking reelection, Biden abandoned his bid for a second term. Then-Vice President Kamala Harris became the nominee and lost to Republican Donald Trump, who returned to the White House after a four-year hiatus.
But in recent days, Biden rejected concerns about his age despite reporting in the new book "Original Sin" by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson that aides had shielded the public from the extent of his decline while serving as president.
In February 2023, Biden had a skin lesion removed from his chest that was a basal cell carcinoma, a common form of skin cancer. And in November 2021, he had a polyp removed from his colon that was a benign, but potentially pre-cancerous lesion.
In 2022, Biden made a "cancer moonshot" one of his administration's priorities with the goal of halving the cancer death rate over the next 25 years. The initiative was a continuation of his work as vice president to address a disease that had killed his older son, Beau.
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That hormone is usually testosterone, which is unfortunate. The rest of his body probably won't be happy about having it blocked.
Agreed. The treatment will have unpleasant side effects.
america has cancer of the asshole, and that asshole is in the white house ...
I am sorry to hear this and hope he recovers
I'm afraid that the fact that it has spread to bone indicates that there is unlikely to be a cure. Hopefully, his disease can be treated, but it likely can't be eradicated entirely.
I read this on a different site and was extremely disturbed by some of the comments. It just makes me sad for future of this country.
I wish him and his family peace.
Cancer sucks. I hope he recovers. Seems incredibly bad luck that despite having the best medical care in the world the cancer wasn't detected until it reached this stage.
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I wish him the best in this. I do hope he recovers without too much issue. It sucks that this seems to be more aggressive than prostate cancer usually is. Prostate cancer is normally very slow moving. They say every man, if he lives long enough, will develop prostate cancer.
Spare us the crocodile tears.
when i read that, i pictured Trump with a voodoo doll of a bent over Biden, probably in bent Dover Delaware, with 47 proden ole Joes' posterior as he acted asz just Biden his time away. Elon high fivin and cart wheels off the stage left
no surprise that trump typically exhibits a lack of compassion for others ...
The scumbag doesnt fall far from the tree.
God, he deserves a really hard punch in the nads.
Holy shit, these people are stupid!
Somebody wanna tell this dumbass that she’s not that kind of doctor?
What? there is more than one kind...
regularly ...
he doesn't have any ...
Is that why Kimberly Guilfoyle cut him loose?
I'll wait for her book to come, out after caligula leaves DC feet first ...
I'm sure her ambassadorship came with an NDA.
no dick assigned?
not donald approved ...
damn, now who's going to work the brass pole at CPAC this year ...
... lara trump?
Well, it's a shame, but it sounds like it's treatable. Prostate tumors are usually pretty slow-growing, so it's a little discouraging that any president could have a health issue like this that sneaks up on the doctors.
I'm sure he was getting regular screenings, but high PSA happens with infections or benign enlargement of the prostate. Digital exams are going to depend on the skill of the provider and the location and size of the tumor at the time of screening.
There is a subtlety in the discussion that is taking place on cable television by the doctors and other professionals talking about this case. That is, they mention that there is a cut off age of 70, when doctors (insurance companies) estimate the average lifespan of men to be around 79. Therefore, they stop checking for prostate cancer as the thinking is on average the men won't be around much after they get it anyway. Am I wrong?
I get what you are sharing, nevertheless. Biden is a well-kept individual due to his presence and being a 'fixture' in D.C. for most of his life. The thinking goes with all that going for him, why him?
There is a lesson ingrained in this for the general public. It's time to go "on-guard" and to have that discussion with a urologist about testing for prostate cancer . . . despite the time involved and cost. For not all prostate cancers will be 'slow-moving' to develop.
if the shoe was on the other foot, trumpski's ego couldn't handle it ...
... as if he looks all that well anyway.
I’ve seen what an aggressive form of prostate cancer can do, i wish biden the best.
My uncle died 2 years ago from prostate cancer that spread to his spine. It was not a good way to go.
No, not a good way at all. It’s a slow death.
Slow, debilitating, and painful.
meh, health insurance companies start looking for cost cutting shortcuts when men reach a certain age ...
So sad to hear this. I wish him well
it won't spare him from trumpski's blame game vitriol ...
it's advance projection based upon their cult leader's dementia related verbal and physical faux pas ...