Biden diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer

[Pelican Press 0]

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

Biden diagnosed with aggressive prostate *******

Former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with prostate *******, his office says.

Biden was seen last week by doctors after ******** symptoms and a prostate nodule was found. He was diagnosed with prostate ******* on Friday, with the ******* cells having spread to the bone.

“While this represents a more aggressive form of the disease, the ******* appears to be hormone-sensitive which allows for effective management,” his office said on Sunday.

“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 one to 10, how the cancerous cells look compared with normal cells. Biden’s office said his score was nine, suggesting his ******* is among the most aggressive.

When prostate ******* spreads to other parts of the body, it often spreads to the bones. Metastasised ******* is much harder to treat than localised ******* because it can be hard for drugs to reach all the tumours 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 tumours 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 *******. 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 “******* moonshot” one of his administration’s priorities with the goal of halving the ******* 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.

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

#Biden #diagnosed #aggressive #prostate #*******

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up