Joe Biden diagnosed with 'aggressive' prostate cancer that has spread to his bones

The Associated Press

· Posted: May 18, 2025 4:11 PM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hr ago

Former U.S. president Joe Biden has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, his bureau said Sunday.

Biden was seen past week by doctors aft urinary symptoms, and a prostate nodule was found. He was diagnosed with prostate crab connected Friday, with the crab cells having dispersed to the bone.

"While this represents a much assertive signifier of the disease, the crab appears to beryllium hormone-sensitive which allows for effectual management," his bureau said.

"The president and his household are reviewing attraction options with his physicians."

Prostate cancers are fixed a grade called a Gleason people that measures, connected a standard of 1 to 10, however the cancerous cells look compared with mean cells. Biden's people of 9 suggests his crab is among the astir aggressive.

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When prostate crab spreads to different parts of the body, it often spreads to the bones. Metastasized crab is overmuch harder to dainty than localized crab due to the fact that it tin beryllium hard for drugs to scope each of the tumours and wholly basal retired the disease.

However, erstwhile prostate cancers request hormones to grow, arsenic successful Biden's case, they tin beryllium susceptible to attraction that deprives the tumours of hormones.

The wellness of Biden, 82, was a ascendant interest among voters during his clip arsenic president. After a calamitous statement show successful June 2024, portion seeking re-election, Biden abandoned his bid for a 2nd term. Kamala Harris, who was his vice-president, became the nominee and mislaid to Republican Donald Trump, who returned to the White House aft a four-year hiatus.

But successful caller days, Biden rejected concerns astir his property contempt reporting successful the caller book, Original Sin by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, that aides had shielded the nationalist from the grade of his diminution portion serving arsenic president.

In February 2023, Biden had a tegument lesion removed from his thorax that was a basal compartment carcinoma, a communal signifier of tegument cancer. And successful November 2021, helium had a polyp removed from his colon that was a benign but perchance pre-cancerous lesion.

In 2022, Biden made a "cancer moonshot" 1 of his administration's priorities with the extremity of halving the crab decease complaint implicit the adjacent 25 years. The inaugural was a continuation of his enactment arsenic vice-president to code a illness that had killed his older son, Beau.