Former President Joe Biden identified with aggressive type of prostate most cancers

Former President Joe Biden has been identified with prostate most cancers, his private workplace introduced on Sunday.

“Final week, President Joe Biden was seen for a brand new discovering of a prostate nodule after experiencing rising urinary signs,” learn a press release launched by the president’s private workplace. “On Friday he was identified with prostate most cancers, characterised by a Gleason rating of 9 (Grade Group 5) with metastasis to the bone.”

“Whereas this represents a extra aggressive type of the illness, the most cancers seems to be hormone-sensitive which permits for efficient administration,” the assertion continued. “The President and his household are reviewing remedy choices along with his physicians.”

A spokesperson for Biden’s workplace stated that they don’t have any extra remark past the workplace’s assertion.

A spokesperson for the previous president beforehand disclosed final Tuesday {that a} “small nodule” was discovered on Biden’s prostate, “which necessitated additional analysis.” The nodule was discovered throughout a routine bodily examination.

The prognosis comes as Democrats face a reckoning over whether or not Biden ought to have run for a second time period within the first place. Biden’s run — and subsequent withdrawal — stoked deep divisions within the get together over whether or not a run at his age helped contribute to Donald Trump’s win in November.

Biden, 82, is the oldest individual to have held the presidency. Trump, at 78, was the oldest individual to be inaugurated president.