Former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with a "aggressive form" of prostate cancer that has spread to his bones, his office said in a statement Sunday.
"Last week, President Joe Biden discovered new findings of prostate nodules after suffering an increase in urinary symptoms," his office said in a statement. "On Friday, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, characterized by a Gleason score of 9 (Grade 5), with bone metastasis. This represents a more aggressive form of the disease, but the cancer appears to be hormone-sensitive, which can be managed effectively. The president and his family are reviewing treatment options with his physicists."
Evaluated Biden His office said last week that a small nodule was found in the prostate, his office said last week.
According to the Cleveland Clinic, prostate cancer is very common, second only to skin cancer is the most common cancer affecting men. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, for every 100 men, 13 will develop prostate cancer at some point in their lives.
Although all men are at risk for prostate cancer, age is the most common risk factor, the CDC said.
"The older a man is, the greater the chance of developing prostate cancer," the CDC noted.
Biden is 82 years old The oldest president in historyalthough President Trump, 78, became the oldest person to be sworn in in January.
According to the Cleveland Clinic, the Gleason score is a grading system for prostate cancer. Pathologists divide each tissue sample into grades 1 to 5. The lower the grade, the more the cancer cells look like normal cells.
Each region of prostate cancer may have different grades, so pathologists have chosen the two regions that make up most of the cancer. According to the Cleveland Clinic, they added results in two areas.
Biden's Gleason score is 9 (Grade 5), which means the largest cell area is level 5 and the next largest area is level 5. The 9 points are “The cells look very different from healthy cells, which are called healthy cells, which are called undegraded or undifferentiated,” the Cleveland Clinic said.
Biden's son, Beau Biden, died of glioblastomaOr brain cancer, 2015 at 46 years old. The former president has long insisted that his son’s cancer was at least caused by the Iraqi burning pit.
So are the former president Treated with skin cancer two years ago. The White House physician said at the time that Biden's skin lesions were very small, His physical examination.
The cancer "Moon" was initiated in 2016 by former President Barack Obama and led by Vice President Biden after Beau Biden's death. The program has been launched for seven years with $1.8 billion in federal funding.
Biden restarted it in 2022, and the White House said at the time that the goal was to "end cancer, as we know it now."