Former President Joe Biden is now receiving radiation remedy for his prostate cancer, a spokesperson for the previous president confirmed to ABC Information.
“As a part of a remedy plan for prostate most cancers, President Biden is at present present process radiation remedy and hormone remedy,” the spokesperson mentioned in an announcement.
The previous president’s workplace introduced his prostate most cancers analysis in Might, noting that whereas it was an aggressive type, “the most cancers seems to be hormone-sensitive which permits for efficient administration.”
On this July 31, 2025, file photograph, former President Joe Biden speaks on the Nationwide Bar Affiliation’s annual conference in Chicago.
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“It is all a matter of taking a capsule, one explicit capsule, for the following six weeks after which one other one,” the 82-year-old mentioned in Might.
“Properly, the prognosis is sweet. You recognize, we’re engaged on all the things. It is transferring alongside. So I really feel good,” he added.
Again in Might, the previous president’s workplace mentioned his analysis was “characterised by a Gleason rating of 9 (Grade Group 5) with metastasis to the bone.”
A Gleason rating of 9 signifies a high-grade, aggressive type of prostate most cancers. It additional signifies that the most cancers cells look very completely different from regular prostate cells and are more likely to develop and unfold quickly.
This locations the most cancers within the Grade Group 5, the highest-risk class, which is related to a larger chance of metastasis and a more difficult prognosis. But regardless of the most cancers’s aggressiveness, its hormone-sensitive nature affords a viable remedy pathway, in line with the Nationwide Most cancers Institute.
President Joe Biden seems on “The View,” Sept. 25, 2024.
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Prostate most cancers is the most typical most cancers and the second-leading explanation for most cancers demise amongst males within the U.S., in line with the Nationwide Institutes of Well being.
An estimated 313,780 new circumstances of prostate most cancers shall be recognized this yr, representing 15.4% of all new most cancers circumstances, in line with the NIH. The five-year survival fee from prostate most cancers is roughly 98%, the NIH says.
Prostate most cancers often grows very slowly. Whereas discovering and treating it earlier than signs happen might not enhance males’s well being or assist them dwell longer, it’s typically a extra treatable sort of most cancers, even when it has unfold.
The information of Biden’s radiation remedy comes after he had Mohs surgery — a typical process to deal with pores and skin most cancers — in September, a Biden spokesperson mentioned.
Biden’s well being had been underneath scrutiny since earlier than he dropped out of the presidential race in 2024, giving technique to then-Vice President Kamala Harris to high the Democratic presidential ticket.
Previous to the announcement of his prostate most cancers analysis, Biden and former first woman Dr. Jill Biden appeared on ABC’s “The View,” the place they each pushed again towards the slate of latest books from reporters claiming that Biden was coping with cognitive decline on the finish of his presidency.
ABC Information’ Eric Strauss contributed to this report.
