Former President Joe Biden is battling what his spokesperson known as on Sunday an “aggressive” type of prostate most cancers.
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Former President Joe Biden is battling what his spokesperson known as on Sunday an “aggressive” type of prostate most cancers.
The New York Instances and different shops reported on Might 17 that the forty sixth president, out of workplace for lower than 5 months, had been identified with the sickness after docs discovered and evaluated a “small nodule” on his prostate. The nodule was detected throughout an examination of the 82-year-old former president at a Philadelphia hospital on Friday.
“While this represents a more aggressive form of the disease, the cancer appears to be hormone-sensitive, which allows for effective management,” the Biden spokesperson stated in a press release. “The president and his family are reviewing treatment options with his physicians.”
Prostate most cancers, in keeping with the New York Metropolis Well being Division, is the second-most widespread type of most cancers amongst males within the Massive Apple; solely pores and skin most cancers afflicts extra males within the metropolis. Signs are uncommon within the early phases, however can usually mimic these of an enlarged prostate, equivalent to frequent urination.
Throughout the remaining 12 months of his presidency in 2024, the New York Instances reported that Biden was given a clear invoice of well being in his annual bodily.
Nationally, the American Most cancers Society estimates that greater than 320,000 males might be identified this 12 months with prostate most cancers; about 6 in 10 of these new circumstances might be amongst males age 60 and older. Greater than 3.3 million individuals residing within the U.S. at the moment are prostate most cancers survivors. One in each 44 prostate most cancers circumstances, nonetheless, is deadly.
The illness is taken into account treatable if detected early by means of medical evaluations equivalent to PSA (prostate-specific antigen) blood exams. Males over the age of fifty or who’ve a historical past of prostate most cancers of their household must be examined.
