Former president Joe Biden received a diagnosis of prostate cancer, announced its office on Sunday.
Biden was seen by doctors last week after urinary symptoms and a prostate nodule were found. On Friday, he received a diagnosis of prostate cancer, cancer cells spread to the bone.
“Although this represents a more aggressive form of the disease, cancer seems to be sensitive to hormones that allows effective management,” said its office. “The president and his family examine the processing options with his doctors.”
Prostate cancers receive a score called Gleason score which measures, on a scale of 1 to 10, to the appearance of cancer cells compared to normal cells. Biden’s office said his score was 9, suggesting that his cancer is among the most aggressive.
When prostate cancer spreads to other parts of the body, it often spreads to bones. Metastasé cancer is much more difficult to treat than localized cancer, as it can be difficult for drugs to reach all tumors and completely eliminate the disease.
However, when prostate cancers need hormones to develop, as in the case of Biden, they can be sensitive to treatment that deprives hormone tumors.
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Many political leaders have sent their wish for its recovery.
President Donald Trump, a long -standing political opponent, posted on social networks that he had been saddened by the news and “we wish Joe a quick and successful cover”.
Pete Buttigieg, who was Biden’s transport secretary, called the former president “a man of deep faith and extraordinary resilience”.
The health of Biden, 82, was a dominant concern among the voters during his time as president. After a calamitous debate performance in June asking for a re -election, Biden abandoned his candidacy for a second term. The president of the time, Kamala Harris, became the candidate and lost against Trump, a Republican who returned to the White House after a four -year interruption.
But in recent days, Biden has rejected concerns about his age despite the fact that the new “original Sin” book by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson that the aid had protected the public had protected the public from his decline while being president.
In February 2023, Biden removed a skin lesion from his chest which was a basal carcinoma of the cells, a common shape of skin cancer. And in November 2021, he had a polyp from his colon withdrawn which was a benign, but potentially precancerous lesion.
In 2022, Biden made “Moshot cancer” one of the priorities of his administration in order to halve the mortality rate by cancer in the next 25 years. The initiative was the continuation of his work as vice-president to approach a disease that had killed his eldest, beautiful, deceased from brain cancer in 2015.
His father, when the objective of making the mortality rate against cancer, said that it could be an “American moment to prove to us and, frankly, the world we can do with very great things”.
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