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Joe Biden
Even so, and according to the former US president’s office, “cancer seems to be sensitive to hormones, which allows effective management” of the disease.
The former president of the United States Joe Biden was diagnosed with a “aggressive” form of prostate cancer, with “metastases in the bones”announced on Sunday the office of the former Democratic leader.
“Although it is more aggressively of the disease, the cancer seems to be sensitive to hormones, which allows effective managementOf the disease, declared Joe Biden’s office in a statement released by the Associated Press and AFP agencies.
Biden, 82, was seen last week by doctors after being detected urinary symptoms and a prostate nodule. A prostate cancer was diagnosed on Friday, with cancer cells winged for the osso.
“The president and his family are analyzing the treatment options with his doctors,” reads in the statement.
On Tuesday, it was reported that it had been discovered, in a routine medical examination, a “Small nodule” In the prostate of Biden, which required more tests.
According to AP, prostate cancers receive a score called Gleason score that measures, on a scale of 1 to 10, the appearance of cancer cells compared to normal cells. Biden’s score, 9, suggests that Your cancer is among the most aggressive.
When prostate cancer spreads to other parts of the body, it often spreads to the bones. The cancer with metastases is much harder to treat than localized cancer, because medicines may not reach all tumors and completely eliminate the disease.
However, when prostate cancers need hormones to grow, as in the case of Biden, can react to treatments that deprive hormone tumors.
It was worse
A health Biden was a dominant concern among voters during his term as president (2021-2025).
After, in June, highlight confusion, Biden the candidacy for a second term.
Then Vice President Kamala Harris became the Democratic candidate and lost in the November elections to Republican Donald Trump, who returned to the White House after a four-year hiatus.
In recent days, Biden has rejected concerns about age. But Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s “original sin” who protected the audience from extension of its decline while exercising the presidential mandate.
In February 2023, Biden had a skin injury removed from the chest that was a basocellular carcinomaa common form of skin cancer. In November 2021, a colon polyp which was a benign but potentially pre-concancer injury.
In 2022, Biden made the disease fight one of his administration’s priorities, with the aim of halving the cancer mortality rate over the next 25 years.
The initiative was a continuation of work as vice president to combat a disease that had killed his eldest son, Beau.
Biden was the older president of US history. Trump took office for the second term in January, at the age of 78.
