Scary that it can get missed in perhaps the most evaluated human being on earth. I mean, the guys been out of the most powerful position in the world for 5 months. Not like he wasn't getting watched like a hawk.

AgBQ-00 said:

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If it is metasticized does it not stand to reason that he's had it a while? Wouldn't they have caught it during his extensive checkups?

Also I hate cancer. Prayers for him.

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This is the first thing that occurred to me.

How many times has cancer popped up for the first time with aggressive metastasis 15 months after a full workup done at Walter Reed apparently showed nothing at all?

Can some of our resident docs weigh in on how plausible that sounds?

ETA: I saw it before it was deleted, 92. I shouldn't have, but I laughed...

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RikkiTikkaTagem said:

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Cancer sucks.

Would like to take this moment to also give a PSA about prostrate cancer.


https://www.health.harvard.edu/mens-health/ejaculation_frequency_and_prostate_cancer

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So science finally settled the question of "if you don't use it, you lose it"

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I sent this to my wife and pretty sure I just increased my risk vs decrease.

Going to add.. for you gents and family members who have been through this, nothing but prayers. Yes, all cancer is bad. I am no fan of Biden, so I will not provide false platitudes. That aside, there is something afoot here and that should be discussed as well.

Back in 2008 I was diagnosed with prostate cancer.
I'm positive the "Ranch Hands" did not even rinse out their tanks or spray nozzles after
Vietnam veteran and can distinctly remember the DDT particulate spray falling on my bare arms as they sprayed the DDT for "mosquito control"
I had a high "Gleason" score and "beat my bones" to M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
I knew that if Prostate cancer metastasized it took off like a rocket.
As we used to say, "Two chances, slim & none, and looks like "Slim" PCS'ed!

I can't speak to Prostate Cancer, but my dad was diagnosed with a bizarre form of follicular lymphoma. We spent about a year chasing various symptoms. Never had a bad blood test. About a month after diagnosis, the cancer doc sent him to ICU without passing Go or collecting $200 for breathing issues. He died of organ failure 2 days later. Never even got to start chemo or whatever. He was 82 but in good shape for his age generally.

Just here to say F cancer and it can definitely be missed to progress fast in seniors.

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AgBQ-00 said:

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If it is metasticized does it not stand to reason that he's had it a while? Wouldn't they have caught it during his extensive checkups?

Also I hate cancer. Prayers for him.

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Maybe they did but were not about to let it go public.

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Wasn't he on The View about 2 weeks ago. I would assume Jill wouldn't have trotted him out there with this diagnosis. Does this kind of cancer hit with < than 2 weeks warning, getting sick that quickly?

Dr. Mephisto said:

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Lost both parents to cancer.

God, take this curse from the earth.

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Take this curse?

The Lord giveth and... you know the rest.

JaxDad said:

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AgBQ-00 said:

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If it is metasticized does it not stand to reason that he's had it a while? Wouldn't they have caught it during his extensive checkups?

Also I hate cancer. Prayers for him.

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Maybe they did but were not about to let it go public.

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They decided they could hide it but I don't see how they didn't know. I hate cancer and hopefully he was getting treatment.

If it metastasized to his brain, that would explain a lot. I'm betting they knew about it.

My uncle died from bone cancer. It was a miserable, painful last few months for him. Impossible to get any comfort.

Cancer sucks. I will leave it at that.

Emotional Support Cobra said:

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I can't speak to Prostate Cancer, but my dad was diagnosed with a bizarre form of follicular lymphoma. We spent about a year chasing various symptoms. Never had a bad blood test. About a month after diagnosis, the cancer doc sent him to ICU without passing Go or collecting $200 for breathing issues. He died of organ failure 2 days later. Never even got to start chemo or whatever. He was 82 but in good shape for his age generally.

Just here to say F cancer and it can definitely be missed to progress fast in seniors.

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Same sort of thing was going on with my mom's oldest sister. She was 78 and had been doing well. All of a sudden, she started behaving weirdly and being paranoid. My cousin took her to doctor after doctor for months and no one could find anything wrong with her. After 6 months, they said, "Oh look, she has cancer and you need to put her in hospice now." She was dead a week later. The last few months of my aunts life were awful not only for her but for her kids who had to see her suffer with no answers for so long.

I'm shocked to hear his Gleason score is a 9. How was this not detected sooner?

A bit of a soap box here...any male 35 years and older should have an annual PSA test done. Simple blood test. Prostate cancer can be easily treated if caught early.

For those who have never heard of a Gleason score...the lowest value one is given when they are diagnosed with Prostate cancer is a 6. The highest value is a ten.

AgBQ-00 said:

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If it is metasticized does it not stand to reason that he's had it a while? Wouldn't they have caught it during his extensive checkups?

Also I hate cancer. Prayers for him.

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I imagine that they knew about it but expected it to be a typical case that isn't aggressive.

A doctor in my area once observed that nearly all men die with prostate cancer but few die from prostate cancer.

May disagree with everything he stands for but still wish him God speed

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A doctor in my area once observed that nearly all men die with prostate cancer but few die from prostate cancer.

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I've heard that statement as well.

**** cancer.

Lost my mom to cancer that was supposed to be one of the easiest to treat. Diagnosis in the spring, gone by Christmas. Seeing her suffer just about broke me. Strongest woman I've ever known (5' tall and could still kick BigRob's ass, probably) and went on hospice around September because it was too aggressive. It was all we could do to make her comfortable with fentanyl and morphine.

0% chance they didn't know about and have been treating it for years.. if true.

**** cancer! Most consequential President - for the wrong reasons.

As a prostate cancer survivor myself, prayers up for Joseph Biden and anybody else afflicted with this scourge. Cancer knows no politics or religion or any kind of belief. It only knows one thing. It is the enemy of all of us. Get well, Joe. God bless you.

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F*** cancer

If it has metastasized, it's not really beatable anymore. I hope he doesn't suffer and lives comfortably, long enough to come to terms and pass peacefully.

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One of my brothers was diagnosed with cancer, some rare form, a couple of months after he retired. I was still working then and generally when I went to the bank drive through, I returned phone calls, or made calls, while sitting in line. One day I called him and he was telling me about how the pain was so unbearable the night before, that he had cried for around five hours. He said he wasn't sure where the fluid to make the tears had even come from after so long a period of crying.

Then he said "you know, I am not going to beat this." That was such a hard thing to hear my brother say. And he didn't.

Biden has bone cancer. He's sick. Cancer is bad.

How did I do?

Edit to add…I'm pretty certain he has had this for years now, but this isn't the thread to discuss the political reality.

What others have been saying (and my immediate thought as well, PSA is an easy check and it's fairly rare to have regular PSA + stage 4b prostate cancer.

Urologist Dr. Shusterman says it’s “unheard of” for someone with Biden’s level of care to not know he had prostate cancer 5–10 years ago.

It was a full-on coverup:

“It's very unlikely that someone could get annual checkups and not notice.”

“He is a former president, had… pic.twitter.com/L7tSGp9fPg

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) May 19, 2025

Burnsey said:

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Biden has bone cancer. He's sick. Cancer is bad.

How did I do?

Edit to add…I'm pretty certain he has had this for years now, but this isn't the thread to discuss the political reality.

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No, he has prostate cancer that had traveled to his bones,

"Just because you visit Italy as an American, it doesn't make you an Italian".*

*Dr Fosella at MD Anderson explains my wife's lung cancer in her bones

Our Lord does not cause diseases. Satan does. In the beginning, before sin entered this world, there was no disease.
Christ bore our diseases on the Cross with his stripes.

Fk cancer.
Thoughts and prayers that Biden beats it.

[We're going to keep this thread to a discussion on the former president's diagnosis, health, and the broader topic of cancer. If you want to discuss the timing of this announcement or President Biden's political legacy, please take it to another thread and refrain from derails, trolls, and hyper negativity on this one -- Staff]

Cancer touches us all. Like so many of you, Jill and I have learned that we are strongest in the broken places. Thank you for lifting us up with love and support. pic.twitter.com/oSS1vGIiwU

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) May 19, 2025

JamesPShelley said:

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Dr. Mephisto said:

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Lost both parents to cancer.

God, take this curse from the earth.

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Take this curse?

The Lord giveth and... you know the rest.

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The second statement has nothing to do with your question.

Cancer is a curse.

Good for you if you haven't lost anyone close to you from it, but many of us have fought it ourselves, or lost the most precious people in our lives to it.

So, yes, Lord take this curse from the earth.

He told us he had cancer on July 20, 2022 and the media dismissed it as a gaffe, and then tried to spin it as him referring to past skin cancers.

Will pray for him and his family!

Godspeed.

I have my own appointment with a urologist tomorrow morning because of an elevated level on a blood test.