According to his office, former US president Joe Biden has “aggressive” prostate cancer.
After developing urinary symptoms and discovering a prostate nodule, doctors saw Biden last week. According to a statement released on Sunday, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer on Friday and his cancer cells had already spread to the bone.
His office stated that while this is a more aggressive form of the disease, the cancer appears to be hormone-sensitive, which facilitates effective management.
The President and his family are talking with his doctors about possible treatments, it continued.
The 82-year-old Biden’s health was a top issue for American voters during his presidency, and it only increased as of the campaign in 2024.
Biden resigned from his bid for a second term following a disastrous debate performance in June 2024. After a four-year absence, Vice President Kamala Harris was chosen to become the nominee but lost to Donald Trump.
After the Hamas-led October 7 attack, Biden, a self-proclaimed Zionist, received harsh criticism at home and abroad for supporting Israel without using Washington’s influence to stifle its punishing Gaza war and for using Israel’s leverage to stifle Palestinians in Gaza.
Despite reports in the new book Original Sin that aides had guarded the public from the extent of his cognitive decline while he was president, Biden refrained from expressing concerns about his age in recent days.
A Gleason score, which measures the cancerous cells’ appearance on a scale of 1 to 10, is provided for prostate cancers. His cancer is among the most aggressive, according to Biden’s 9th-grade score.
Source: Aljazeera
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