Biden diagnosed with aggressive form' of prostate cancer [edited title]

[Pooky 3,874]

Biden diagnosed with ‘aggressive form’ of prostate cancer

By Betsy Klein, Katherine Dillinger, Meg Tirrell and Isabelle D’Antonio, CNN

Updated 8:03 AM EDT, Mon May 19, 2025

03:49 - Source: CNN

David Axelrod reacts to Biden’s cancer diagnosis

 

CNN — 

Former President Joe Biden was diagnosed with an “aggressive form” of prostate cancer, according to a statement from his personal office Sunday, and it has spread to his bones.

 

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/05/18/politics/joe-biden-prostate-cancer

Cancer sucks. ☠️

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[Ban Hammer 14,269]

yeah, it just suddenly appeared and we're supposed to believe that.

[yuna628 9,873]

Food for thought from someone dealing with elderly parents with cancer...

 

Cancer does just happen one day... someday. Hopefully never, but for those that get it, it's someday. There's always going to be a time when you don't know you have cancer vs when you do. Cancers don't always fit into neat packages of when, how, or why they appear.

 

My mom likely had cancer for quite some time. She went to her primary but they never knew. She complained of pain in her bones, but never of abdominal issues. At my begging over years she finally went to see a Rheumatologist and they are the one that found it. And I will never forget that phone call. She went through surgery and treatment and lived. But our young family friend that got his same diagnosis around the same time - aggressively spread and dead within the year.

 

Generally prostate cancers are hopefully picked up on a test, but it's to my understanding some times they just aren't. We can all be skeptical. I could say that we'd all hope that our presidents receive the best medical care, but I'm not so sure of that. We don't know what goes on.

 

My dad is terribly unhealthy and goes to more doctors than he can probably even remember anymore. But I can tell you, I know who the good ones are.. the ones that actually give a damn about their elderly patients and are willing to think outside of boxes to get a diagnosis. Those are the ones that I credit with saving my dad's life so many times now. Because he's walked around with brain tumours, blood clots, cancer, and much more.. which plenty just never picked up on.  But a lot of this relies on family to advocate, the patient to be honest and advocate, and to get that good doctor.

 

Lately there was a story that implied that Biden's doctor was concerned if he had a fall he'd need to be in a wheelchair, as he'd had several falls and had stiffness and gait issues. OK, did he think he was just another old guy hobbling about? Hey my dad hobbles too.. has had bad falls, and sometimes he needs to go in a wheelchair. Well, I think about that now in light of his diagnosis, and having cancer going to your bones might have been a big clue. It's disturbing it wasn't caught earlier, which of course will lead to people being skeptical. I get that. But we just don't know either way. He's had covid a lot, and there's new research that's showing it can facilitate cancer spread.

 

My husband's grandfather is well advanced beyond Biden's age, dementia, and just recently diagnosed with same thing. No one ever knew. It's the NHS though so I can't say what screening care was available. Getting men to go to a urologist or get a prostate exam, let alone other procedures to get checked can be hard. I know because my dad is dealing with that now, after never being screened (yes even after going to the doctor for years). He just had surgery and it took a lot of coaxing for that...

 

Men.. please get checked. Advocate for yourselves. Your wives and kids will thank you.

[hplusj 571]

As someone who also walked the cancer journey with her father for eleven years, I have a very, very hard time believing it went undiagnosed all this time, not with a)the rigorous medical reviews US presidents undergo, and b)the lack of disclosure of Biden's results for his entire term, something unprecedented.

 

Stage 4 can be a years-long process.  Much of the behaviors exuded by the former president, behaviors that were dismissed while the American people were gaslit in real time until a time convenient for the media to admit the obvious, are side effects of chemotherapy.  "Chemobrain" is a well documented condition (chemotherapy related cognitive impairment).

 

Given all the lies that have surfaced regarding the last administration, I will call on Occam's Razor here.  The exception to the rule does not work for me.  What was most likely the case here?  I do not like Biden, but his administration was possibly one of the most corrupt and perverse in America's history, installing a dying man as a placeholder for the oval office.  This is why Pelosi's interest in the 25th went nowhere.  Everyone who knew (and I can't wait to learn who in sum "they" are) were counting on stage 4b to do its thing in due time.

 

Apparently everyone was checking their watches, if you catch my drift.

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[TBoneTX 47,496]

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12 hours ago, yuna628 said:

Cancer does just happen one day... someday. Hopefully never, but for those that get it, it's someday.

Yup.  I was diagnosed with cervical precancer during my first prenatal exam with Kid2.  

[Boiler 47,449]

I was watching CNN interview a Specialist on the subject, he did not seem to be saying what the Reporter sic wanted him to say. They tried a different Doctor later. Somethings I took away:

 

A lot of false positives

Different view on the efficacy of the test

Change in readings rather than the readings themseleves is what matters

Not worth it if you have 10 years or less to go, which they also referred to as over 70........

[appleblossom 4,386]

14 hours ago, yuna628 said:

Food for thought from someone dealing with elderly parents with cancer...

 

Cancer does just happen one day... someday. Hopefully never, but for those that get it, it's someday. There's always going to be a time when you don't know you have cancer vs when you do. Cancers don't always fit into neat packages of when, how, or why they appear.

 

Yep. My FIL had exactly the same as Biden, he was only diagnosed at a very late stage with prostate cancer, by which point it had spread to his bones. He'd been complaining of a pain in his hip for about a month prior to him seeing the doctor and being diagnosed, but other than that was completely symptom free. He died within 6 weeks. 

 

And my mother has just been diagnosed with cancer for the 3rd time, uterine this time (previously breast and angiosarcoma). Because of her previous cancers she is scanned every 6 months. Her last scan in November was completely clear, her April scan wasn't.  

 

Cancer doesn't follow the rules, as anybody that's ever dealt with it knows only too well. I'm so sorry about your parents, I wish you and them the best.

 

 

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‘What are we doing here?’: Democrats were shocked at Biden’s decline but stayed quiet, according to new book

 

This was all before he was elected.

 

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/20/politics/biden-book-original-sin-age

[TBoneTX 47,496]

And another.  No matter to whom this happens, no one should like to hear it.

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'Dilbert' creator Scott Adams reveals same cancer diagnosis as Biden, says he has months to live

 

(NEXSTAR) – Scott Adams, the creator of the 'Dilbert' comic strip, has revealed he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer that has metastasized to his bones.

Adams, 67, brought up the diagnosis Monday during a stream on his Rumble account, while discussing former President Joe Biden's similar prostate cancer diagnosis.

"I've decided that today's the day that I'm going to take the opportunity, since a lot of you are here, to make an announcement of my own," Adams said during his podcast.  "Some of you have already guessed, so this won't surprise you all.  But I have the same cancer that Joe Biden has."

 

"But I've had it longer than he's had it.  Well, longer than he's admitted having it," Adams added.  "So my life expectancy is maybe this summer.  I expect to be checking out from this domain sometime this summer."  [...]

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/dilbert-creator-scott-adams-reveals-181257599.html

[TBoneTX 47,496]

Come to think of it, there WERE national-security risks.  Remember those months when Bidementia was a lame duck?  It was really "all along."

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Biden's Late Cancer Diagnosis Exposes Democrats And The Media As Legitimate National Security Risks

 

Until Democrats start naming names and apologizing for their reckless, craven conduct as it relates to Joe Biden, I don't want to hear another word about Pete Hegseth's Signal chats.

It was fine timing to get news over the weekend that the former president, a well established dotard, has an advanced and aggressive form of prostate cancer that has reached his bones.  There's a strong likelihood that Biden was diagnosed with some stage of the disease before he was even elected president, and he almost certainly had it while in office.  Yet the public knew nothing until Sunday.

 

Prayers up for Biden, but this is an appalling scandal.  And it comes just as the dying news media are finally acknowledging that, yeah, Biden's brain was rapidly browning over as he sat in the Oval Office, where he was losing track of space and time as the commander of the United States military, the point person for nuclear war.  [...]

 

https://thefederalist.com/2025/05/20/bidens-late-cancer-diagnosis-exposes-democrats-and-the-media-as-legitimate-national-security-risks/

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Karine Jean-Pierre Insists Joe Biden Is Cancer-Free

 

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Following the shocking announcement that he was suffering from stage 4 prostate cancer, former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre insisted that Joe Biden was 100% cancer-free.

Jean-Pierre assured the American people that the cancer-riddled former president had received a clean bill of health and that, despite Biden suffering from metastatic cancer, it in no way meant that he was suffering from metastatic cancer.

"He is as fit, healthy, and free of cancer as I've ever seen him," she told reporters.  [...]

 

https://babylonbee.com/news/karine-jean-pierre-insists-joe-biden-is-cancer-free

[Lemonslice 5,238]

May you find humour when you, or your loved ones, get sick.

 

My aunt recently died of cancer - from "nothing" (she had a scan for another reason), to final/incurable in 3 months.  Cancer is a weird beast - [big bad words not allowed on VJ] cancer.

[hplusj 571]

I'm not trying to diminish the experiences of others but again, these are extreme exceptions to the rule.  There is a good reason for people to get screened regularly.  If the screenings were moot and cancer just was unpredictable and undetectable most of the time, they would not be recommended as they are.

 

We are talking about a high-profile person with REGULAR yet UNDISCLOSED medical examinations for four years.  The likelihood that this was a new discovery when we have a trail of evidence as long as Abe Lincoln's arm is ridiculous to me.  

 

The office of the president is not a trivial position.  It depends on the health and competence of the person who fills it.  Until the medical examination records are disclosed, there is absolutely no way I can accept the given narrative at face value.  

[TBoneTX 47,496]

Bidementia reportedly hadn't had a PSA test since 2014 (!!?).  No excuse for that, and in fact it smacks of medical negligence or malpractice.