{"id":27935,"date":"2025-05-20T01:00:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T01:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=27935"},"modified":"2025-05-20T01:00:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T01:00:32","slug":"why-health-experts-are-shocked-by-joe-bidens-aggressive-cancer-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=27935","title":{"rendered":"Why health experts are shocked by Joe Biden’s ‘aggressive’ cancer diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Health experts have claimed there is something ‘odd’ about Joe Biden’s cancer announcement.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The 46th president of the United States has been\u00a0diagnosed with prostate cancer<\/a>, reps for the 82-year-old confirmed on Sunday (May 18).<\/p>\n

The statement revealed\u00a0Biden<\/a>\u00a0had been assessed by medics last week for urinary issues and found a new ‘prostate nodule’ that they say has been ‘characterized by a Gleason score of 9 (Grade Group 5)’ with ‘metastasis to the bone’.<\/p>\n

There are five grade groups\u00a0within the Gleason score<\/a>, with Grade Group 1 considered the least aggressive while Grade Group 5 is the most, based on scores between two to 10 on how abnormal the cancer cells are.<\/p>\n

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Healthcare professionals say they are shocked to hear about the former president’s diagnosis (Bruce Glikas\/WireImage)<\/cite><\/div>\n

Biden with a score of nine points puts him at the high end in Group 5, however,\u00a0doctors<\/a>\u00a0say his cancer is hormone-sensitive, so they can effectively ‘manage’ it with medications that block or lower the amount of hormones to prevent further growth.<\/p>\n

However, some health experts say they are shocked by the sudden announcement, finding it unusual that Biden’s prostate\u00a0cancer<\/a>\u00a0wasn’t caught earlier.<\/p>\n

Doctor Howard Forman, a physician and professor of radiology an public health at\u00a0Yale<\/a>\u00a0University, said in a post on Twitter: “It is inconceivable that this was not being followed before he left the Presidency.<\/p>\n

“Gleason grade 9 would have had an elevated PSA [prostate specific antigen] level for some time before this diagnosis. And he must have had a PSA test numerous times before.”<\/p>\n

The expert added: “This is odd. I wish him well and hope he has an opportunity for maximizing his quality of life.”<\/p>\n

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Biden has been transparent about his health problems in the past (Mandel Ngan – Pool\/Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

Doctor Steven Quay, a physician-scientist, also\u00a0wrote<\/a>\u00a0in The Spectator that metastatic prostate cancer doesn’t tend to ‘appear overnight’ but ‘festers’.<\/p>\n

“Prostate cancer is the easiest cancer to diagnose. The PSA blood test shows the rate of cancer cell growth. Even with the most aggressive form, it is a 5-7 year journey without treatment before it becomes metastatic,” he added.<\/p>\n

However, he admits in some ‘rare but dangerous cases’, prostate cancer can accelerate rapidly and strike faster, ‘especially in older men’.<\/p>\n

According<\/a>\u00a0to the American Cancer Society, the disease is often caught through screening, particularly as early prostate cancers don’t always cause symptoms.<\/p>\n

Symptoms can include needing to urinate more frequently, difficulty in peeing, straining or taking a long time while peeing, weak flow, and\/or blood in urine or in semen,\u00a0according<\/a>\u00a0to the NHS, but essentially men can live with it for decades without needing treatment – and such symptoms don’t always appear until the cancer is already developed and advanced.<\/p>\n

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Biden’s son Beau passed away from a brain tumor in 2015 (PAUL J. RICHARDS\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

The news comes as the health of the former\u00a0POTUS<\/a>\u00a0was a prevailing concern for voters during his time as president – and during his bid for a second term.<\/p>\n

His televised performance in a 90-minute debate against Republican rival\u00a0Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0fueled concerns, prompting the then White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre to release a statement to deny that Biden was suffering from Alzheimer’s.<\/p>\n

He’s also been transparent about other health battles in the past, having a polyp removed from his colon that was benign but possibly pre-cancerous in November 2021, and having a ‘basal cell carcinoma’, a common type of skin cancer, removed from his chest in February 2023.<\/p>\n

While he ran again for a second shot in the Oval Office, with just three months left of the campaign he pulled out and handed the baton to former vice-president\u00a0Kamala Harris<\/a>, who ultimately lost to Trump.<\/p>\n

Biden used his time in office on a mission to tackle the cancer death rate following the tragic passing of his eldest son, Beau, who died at the age of 46 of an aggressive brain tumor in 2015.<\/p>\n

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