Former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, according to a statement from his office released Sunday afternoon.
“Last week, President Joe Biden was seen for the new findings of the prostate nodule after experiencing an increase in urinary symptoms. On Friday, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, marked by a gleason 9 score (class 5 group) with metastasis to bone,” the statement said.
“Although this is a more aggressive form of disease, cancer seems to be sensitive to hormones that enable effective management. The president and his family are reviewing treatment choices with their doctors,” the statement concluded.
A Gleason score 9 shows an aggressive and aggressive form of prostate cancer. Further shows that cancer cells look very different from normal prostate cells and tend to grow and spread quickly.
Former President Joe Biden appeared at ABC News’ The View, May 8, 2025.
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This places cancer in group 5 group, the highest risk category, which is associated with greater possibilities of metastasis and more challenging prognosis. But regardless of clear cancer aggressiveness, its sensitive to hormone offers a decent treatment path, according to the National Cancer Institute.
The reaction to the diagnosis of biden began to roll when the news broke.
President Donald Trump said he was “sad” with a diagnosis of Biden.
“Melania and I am sad to hear about the medical diagnosis of Joe Biden Baru -new. We provide our hottest and best hope for Jill and family, and we hope that Joe recovery is fast and successful,” Trump posted on the social platform of his truth.
Governor Minnesota and Democratic Vice President 2024, the Walz team said he and his wife Gwen prayed for the former president.
“The man is really good and friends. We hope the best,” Walz Posted on x.
Pete Buttiigeg, who served as Secretary of Transportation in the Biden Cabinet, said the former president “was a person who had deep beliefs and extraordinary resilience.”
“Caci and I take care of it, and the whole family of Biden, in our prayer for strength and healing,” Buttigigg said in A Post on x.
On Tuesday, a Biden spokesman confirmed to ABC News that a small nodule was found in a former presidential prostate after “routine physical examination.”
The discovery of the nodule “requires further evaluation,” said the spokesman.
In February 2023, while serving as president, Biden removed lesions from his cancer’s chest. Before entering the office, Biden has some non-melanoma skin cancers released by Mohs surgery.
“As expected, the biopsy confirmed that the small lesion was a basal cell carcinoma,” said the White House doctor Dr. Kevin O’Connor at that time. “All cancer tissue is successfully eliminated. … No further treatment is needed.”
Biden’s health has been watched since before he left the presidential race in 2024, giving way to President Vice at that time Kamala Harris to surpass the Democratic President’s ticket.
In the appearance at ABC “The View” earlier this month, both Biden and former First Lady Dr. Jill Biden generally pushed back to the list of new books from journalists who claimed that Biden dealed with cognitive decline at the end of his presidency.
“They were wrong. Nobody supported it,” Biden said.
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer and the second cause of death of cancer among men in the US, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
It is estimated that 313,780 cases of new prostate cancer will be diagnosed this year, representing 15.4% of all cases of new cancer, estimated to be 35,770 deaths from prostate cancer this year, representing 5.8% of all cancer deaths, according to Nih. The survival rate is relatively five years from prostate cancer, which means the percentage of people who live five years after diagnosis, about 98%, said here.
Prostate cancer in general usually grows very slowly. While finding and caring for it before symptoms occur may not improve male health or help them live longer, it is generally a type of cancer that can be treated more, even when it has spread.
-ABC News’ Eric Strauss contributed to this report.