Former president Joe Biden has been diagnosed with an “aggressive form” of prostate cancer that has spread to his bones, according to an official statement from his personal office obtained by Deadline.
“Last week, President Joe Biden was seen for a new finding of a prostate nodule after experiencing increasing urinary symptoms. On Friday, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, characterized by a Gleason score of 9 (Grade Group 5) with metastasis to the bone,” the statement said. “While this represents a more aggressive form of the disease, the cancer appears to be hormone-sensitive which allows for effective management.”
Per the statement, Biden and his family are “reviewing treatment options with his physicians.”
According to Cancer.org, cancers with Gleason scores of 8 to 10 are categorized as poorly differentiated and high-grade, posing high risk as they are highly aggressive and rapidly growing.
In 1988, just after he ended his first presidential campaign, Biden suffered two life-threatening brain aneurysms, and he later talked of the impact that experience had on his outlook for life.
Since leaving office in January, Biden gave a speech earlier this spring in which he criticized his successor, and he has followed that up with an interview with the BBC and an appearance on The View. The latter appearances were viewed as a way of getting ahead of the publicity surrounding the upcoming book Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, co-authored by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, which claim that Biden’s inner circle concealed his cognitive decline. It is set to be released on Tuesday.
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