Biden's battle with advancing cancer renews focus on prostate disease

Former President Joe Biden’s prostate crab has dispersed further since his diagnosis past year, his lad Hunter Biden revealed successful a BBC interrogation that aired Friday.

"The crab has spread, metastasized into his bones and further," Hunter Biden told BBC Newsnight, describing his father’s information arsenic "very painful" and "very debilitating successful galore respects."

"It’s truly bittersweet to watch," the younger Biden went on. "The lone happening that I’d accidental astir my dad, astir his wellness close now, is I privation helium would kick more, due to the fact that it’s not good."

JOE BIDEN'S CANCER HAS SPREAD FURTHER, LEAVING HIM IN 'VERY PAINFUL' CONDITION, HUNTER REVEALS

Biden, 83, announced his diagnosis successful May 2025, aft quality that a "small nodule" had been recovered successful the erstwhile president's prostate during a regular exam.

"While this represents a much assertive signifier of the disease, the crab appears to beryllium hormone-sensitive, which allows for effectual management," his bureau said astatine the time. "The president and his household are reviewing attraction options with his physicians."

Former President Joe Biden’s prostate crab has dispersed further since his diagnosis past year, his lad Hunter Biden revealed. (Getty Images)

Biden aboriginal underwent hormone therapy and radiation treatment, completing a people of radiation astatine Penn Medicine Radiation Oncology successful Philadelphia successful October 2025, according to the erstwhile president's spokesperson.

In summation to hormone therapy, common treatment options for prostate crab see chemotherapy, targeted therapy, immunotherapy and radiopharmaceutical treatments.

Fox News Digital reached retired to Biden's bureau for comment.

What to cognize astir prostate cancer

Prostate crab is simply a illness recovered successful men that develops successful the prostate gland. Cases person been connected the emergence successful caller years, with wide incidence expanding astir 3% annually from 2014 done 2021, according to the American Cancer Society.

Rates of advanced-stage prostate crab roseate astir 5% per twelvemonth during that period.

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About 333,830 caller cases of prostate crab are expected to beryllium diagnosed successful the U.S. successful 2026, and astir 36,320 men are expected to dice from the disease, according to the American Cancer Society.

One successful 8 men volition beryllium diagnosed with prostate crab successful their lifetime, the aforesaid root stated.

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Older men are astatine a higher hazard of the disease, with six successful 10 cases diagnosed successful patients 65 and older. The mean property astatine diagnosis is 67, with men nether 40 seldom affected.

Prostate crab is the second-most communal crab successful men, down only skin cancer, the ACS noted.

Signs and symptoms

Among men who acquisition regular prostate crab screening, the illness is usually caught aboriginal earlier symptoms emerge, per the ACS.

Typical aboriginal symptoms see problems urinating, a anemic oregon dilatory urinary watercourse oregon an accrued request to urinate. Some men whitethorn besides announcement humor successful the urine oregon bodily fluids.

Biden, 83, announced his diagnosis successful May 2025, aft quality that a "small nodule" had been recovered successful the erstwhile president's prostate during a regular exam. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

More precocious symptoms whitethorn hap aft the illness has spread. Those whitethorn see symptom successful the hips, backmost (spine), thorax (ribs) oregon different areas, the ACS stated.

Men whitethorn besides endure from erectile dysfunction, weight loss, utmost fatigue, weakness successful the legs oregon feet, oregon nonaccomplishment of bladder oregon bowel control.

Screening recommendations

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force states that men aged 55 to 69 years should person the enactment to acquisition periodic prostate-specific antigen (PSA)-based screening to show for prostate cancer.

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"Before deciding whether to beryllium screened, men should person an accidental to sermon the imaginable benefits and harms of screening with their clinician and to incorporated their values and preferences successful the decision," the USPSTF states.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force states that men aged 55 to 69 years should person the enactment to acquisition periodic prostate-specific antigen (PSA)-based screening to show for prostate cancer. (iStock)

While screening offers a "small imaginable benefit" of reducing the chances of dying from the disease, the bureau noted that immoderate men whitethorn acquisition antagonistic effects, including false-positive results, overdiagnosis and overtreatment, and attraction complications.

Alternative prostate crab screening methods are presently being researched, including 1 that uses a non-invasive urine test, arsenic Fox News Digital precocious reported.

Survival rates

For localized prostate cancers, wherever the illness is contained wrong the prostate, the five-year endurance complaint is astatine slightest 99%, according to the ACS.

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For determination cases, wherever the illness has dispersed lone to "nearby structures oregon lymph nodes," the five-year endurance complaint is besides 99% oregon greater.

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If the crab has dispersed to different areas of the body, the five-year endurance complaint drops to 37%.

Actual endurance rates whitethorn alteration based connected the patient's age, overall health, however the crab has progressed post-diagnosis, the disease's effect to treatment, and different factors, the ACS noted.