Former President Biden has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer, his spokesperson announced on Sunday.
“Last week, President Joe Biden was seen for a new finding of a prostate nodule after experiencing increasing urinary symptoms,” according to a statement from Biden’s personal office.
“On Friday he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, characterized by a Gleason score of 9 (Grade Group 5) with metastasis to the bone. 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.”
The news comes as the former president has stepped back into the spotlight following the end of his term earlier this year.
Biden gave his first post-presidency interview to the BBC earlier this month and sat down with “The View” after that.
The interviews come amid a slew of books detailing the last year of the Biden administration, including accusations his mental acuity was slipping while in office.
On “The View,” Biden denied those reports, calling them “wrong.” The former first lady also slammed reporting on Biden’s mental acuity while in office, noting “the people who wrote those books were not in the White House with us.”
But on Sunday prior to the new of the diagnosis, a number of Biden’s allies defended the former president’s last months in office on Washington’s talk shows.
“The fact of the matter is, I saw Biden often,” Clyburn told CNN’s Jake Tapper in a “State of the Union” interview. “I talked to him on the telephone very often, and I never saw anything that I thought was outside of the ordinary.”
