Former president Diagnosis of Joe Biden From what his office calls an “aggressive” form of prostate cancer is the last of a long line of health and fear problems that followed the 82 -year -old man throughout his political career.
As president, Biden has experienced regular physical examinations at the Walter Reed National Military MEDICAL CENTER in Bethesda, Maryland, who was led by Dr. Kevin O’Connor, a former American army who began to treat Biden in his time as vice-president of the Obama administration.
Although he was the oldest person to serve as a commander -in -chief, the O’Connor reports of these annual exams have minimized his age and invariably pronounced it.
A memorandum of February 2024 of O’Connor, following the last annual physics of Biden as president, described it as “a healthy, active and robust man of 81, who remains able to successfully perform the functions of the presidency, to include them as director general, head of state and commander-in-chief.”
However, subsequent events questioned if O’Connor – and other best administrative aids from Biden – were to come on the health and physical form of the president of the time.
Four months after his last physique, Biden’s performance in a debate in June 2024 with Donald Trump was so lamentable that he was forced to leave the race five weeks later. During the 90 -minute television session, it appeared fragile and sometimes could not train coherent sentences, leading to questions to find out if it suffered from a sort of degenerative condition.
Last July, the press secretary of the White House, Karine, Jean-Pierre, denied that he suffered from Alzheimer’s, a form of dementia or another degenerative disease that would explain his disjointed and winding performance. And no evidence appeared that Biden received a diagnosis of condition which would have had such an effect on his mental acuity other than the normal aging process.
However, it is not the first time that he has been receiving a diagnosis of cancer form.
In March 2023, the White House announced that Biden had undergone a procedure to eliminate a common type of skin cancer from its chest.
A memorandum of O’Connor released to the press at the time indicated that a biopsy “confirmed that the small lesion” withdrawn from the president of the time “was a basal carcinoma”.
“All cancer fabrics have been successfully removed. The zone around the biopsy site was treated alleged with electrodiastication and curettage at the time of biopsy. No additional treatment is necessary,” added O’Connor.
The former president also fought against COVID-19 at two different points during his mandate, once in 2022 and a second time in July 2024, a few days before he decided to withdraw from his candidacy after his disastrous debate with Trump.
Before his first fight with Covid, the most serious health problem he had faced since the election victory in 2020 had been a broken foot, endured by playing with one of his German shepherd dogs.
But his health was not always so robust.
Twice in the 1980s, Biden had imminent death experiences that forced him to undergo brain surgery twice in the five months.
He described them in a speech in a hospital in Jerusalem during a visit in February 2023 in Israel.
“I was making a speech and I had a terrible headache – it was years ago – and I did something very stupid: I went on a plane and I went home. Washington DC.
The plane journey that Biden spoke came after he had passed out in a hotel following a speech at the University of Rochester.
In his 2007 memories, Promise to keepBiden wrote that he remembered having “lit flashing in my head, a powerful electric push – then a pain of pain as I had never felt it before”.
In Walter Reed, he was told that he needed surgery, with only 50 to 50 chances that he would live through the procedure.
“Maybe I should have been afraid at this stage, but I felt calm,” he wrote. “In fact, I felt underestimated, as if I floated slowly in the sea wide open. It surprised me, but I was not really afraid of dying. I would have long accepted the fact that the guarantees of life did not include a just shaken.”
But he survived, and three months later, he underwent a similar procedure to repair another smaller aneurysm on the opposite side from the first.
According to The daily beastThe Senator at the time made a last minute request from the surgeon, Dr. Neal Kassell, when he was on the way to the procedure.
“He looked at me in the eye and said,” Doc, do a good job, because one day I’m going to be president “,” said Dr. Kassell in November 2020, just a few days after Biden’s prediction finally became reality with his victory over Trump.