Posted on 05/18/25
| News Source: WSJ
Former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with prostate cancer just months after he left office, his representatives said Sunday.
Biden received the diagnosis of prostate cancer with metastasis to the bone after he was experiencing increasing urinary symptoms. “While this represents a more aggressive form of the disease, the cancer appears to be hormone-sensitive which allows for effective management. The President and his family are reviewing treatment options with his physicians,” according to a statement from Biden’s personal office.
The diagnosis arrives as Biden, who was 82 when he left office in January, has come under scrutiny for age-related mental and physical declines he suffered while he was president.
The former president had campaigned for a second term until he stepped aside for former Vice President Kamala Harris after a halting debate performance that made his struggles impossible to hide.
President Trump wrote on Truth Social, “Melania and I are saddened to hear about Joe Biden’s recent medical diagnosis. We extend our warmest and best wishes to Jill and the family, and we wish Joe a fast and successful recovery.”
Biden’s form of prostate cancer is aggressive and late-stage, but prostate cancers generally are slower growing. The overall chance that a person diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer is alive after five years is around 37%, according to the American Cancer Society.
“This is a significant prostate cancer that does need treatment. It does have the potential to impact your quality and quantity of life, in particular if you don’t have a lot of other medical problems,” said Dr. Lee Richstone, chair of urology at Northwell Health’s Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan and president of the Society of Academic Urologists.