Former President Joe Biden Have been diagnosed with cancer.
“Last week, President Joe Biden's new discovery after experiencing increased urinary symptoms was a new discovery of a prostate nodule. ” CNN Sunday, May 18, read. “On Friday, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, characterized by a Gleason score of 9 (grade 5), bone metastasis.”
“While this represents a more aggressive form of the disease, cancer appears to be hormone-sensitive and can be managed effectively,” the statement added.
Biden and his family, including his wife Dr. Jill BidencurrentlyReview treatment options with a doctor. ”
Joe's office previously confirmed earlier this week that a “small nodule” was found on his prostate in his annual body.
“A small nodule was found in the prostate during routine physical examinations, which requires further evaluation,” a statement said at the time.
The former senator served as former vice president Barack Obama He defeated the current position before being elected the 46th president of the United States in 2020. Donald Trump. Joe initially seeks re-election before ending his 2024 presidential campaign and endorsing the then-president Kamala Harris More than 100 days before the presidential election.
Joe and Jill, 73, have neither children nor grandson – Married couple share daughter Ashley while Joe and his late first wife Neilia Biden Shared Hunter and the late Bo and Naomi – further resolved his cancer battle.
Bidens is a well-known close-knit family.
President Joe Biden revealed that his siblings became his salvation grace after the death of his first wife, Neilia Biden and their infant daughter Naomi. “I had a big advantage in terms of losses,” Joe, 80, recalled on Monday, July 31, “I'm really close.” […]
“He will answer our phone calls no matter where he is,” Hunter's daughter Naomi told PBS in an interview in August 2020. “He will be on stage, give speeches, we will call him, and he will say, 'What's wrong?!'”
Naomi, 31, emerged further, and she and her cousin both “grown up together”.
“He made sure every tradition, every holiday, we were together,” she added. “I don’t think we made any decisions, big or small, we didn’t decide as a family.”
Joe and Jill share six grandchildren. 55-year-old hunter and ex-wife Kathleen Buhle They are the parents of daughters Naomi, Finnegan and Maisy. Hunter also shared his son's blog with his wife Melissa Cohen. Beau died in 2015 after struggling with brain cancer at 46, the father of his daughter Natalie and son Son Hunter, who he shared with his wife Hallie Olivere.
Joe had previously talked frankly about Beau's end-stage cancer war.
Joe recalled: “He knew his time had come, and one night we were having supper at home before we were hospitalized, and he said, ‘Dad, can we talk?” Howard Stern Show In April 2024. “He said, 'Please guarantee I won't leave public life [and public office]. I know when you left and you want to quit. Given to me your words, it's Biden. …I gave him my words. ”
