Biden’s cancer diagnosis adds to office health questions

Joe Biden’s message that he was diagnosed with prostate cancer has revived questions about what health problems the former US president is dealing while he was in the White House.

In a statement on Sunday, Biden’s cabinet said the 82 -year -old had a diagnosis on Friday after seeing a doctor for urine symptoms.

Some doctors have surprised that the aggressive form of cancer that has spread to his bones has not been found earlier.

Others have said that cancers can grow rapidly without the patient showing symptoms – and that men over 70 are not regularly examined.

President Donald Trump told reporters on Monday that his predecessor had to be more transparent to the public, as if suggested – without proposing evidence – that the diagnosis of cancer had been covered.

“I think it’s actually very sad. I’m surprised that the public has not been informed long ago,” Trump said at an event in the White House.

“It may take years to get to this level of danger. So, look, it’s a very, very sad situation. I feel very bad for this and I think people have to try to understand what happened.”

Biden has not yet responded to Trump’s comments that have appeared against the backdrop of reports that Democratic assistants are striving to cover up other worsening health conditions from the public before the 2024 election.

Republicans claim that Biden, who is running for re-election as the oldest president in the history of 81, was mentally and physically unfit for office. He dropped out of the race last summer after a catastrophic debate performance against Trump.

According to Original Sin, a new book by journalists Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, Biden failed to recognize Hollywood actor and democratic donor George Clooney or recall the names of key assistants in his last year of service.

The authors write: “The physical deterioration of Biden – most clearly in his suspension – has become so difficult that there were internal discussions about putting the president in a wheelchair, but they could not do it after the election.”

The public, generated by the book, forced higher democrats to ask why they did not do more to respond to Americans’ concerns about Biden’s health as he is running a re -election campaign.

“It was a mistake that the Democrats would not listen to the voters earlier,” said Senator Chris Murphy on Sunday.

Following the news of Biden’s diagnosis, Vice President J.

“This is not a child’s game and we can pray for good health, but we can also admit that if you are not in good enough health to do the job, you should not do the job,” he added.

Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, an oncologist who worked as a Covid advisor to Biden, is among those who claim that Biden was probably suffering from cancer for some time without necessarily knowing him.

“He hasn’t developed in the last 100, 200 days. He had it while he was president,” he told MSNBC’s morning show. “He probably had it at the beginning of his Presidency in 2021. Yes, I don’t think there is a disagreement in this.”

The medical guidelines of the US do not recommend routine blood screening for men over 70, as prostate cancer can be very slowly growing and the harm of testing and treatment can exceed the risk of cancer.

Previously, Biden had been diagnosed with benign prostate enlargement. In 2019, before he was selected, his campaign released the report from his medical screening, saying he was treated with medication and surgery, “and never had prostate cancer.”

This led to questions about whether Biden was tested at any time during his four -year presidency – and why the diagnosis came so late.

“I suppose the former president receives a very thorough physically every year,” said Chris George of the Northwest Health Network to Reuters. “It’s hard for me to believe that he had (blood test) in the last year, which was normal.”

However, Dr. Robert Figigin, temporarily acting director of Cedars-Sinai Cancer, told the BBC that Biden’s aggressive way of the aggressive way has introduced it is not so unusual. And he warned critics against “assuming that something had been missed along the way.”

Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer for men, according to the Cleveland clinic.

According to US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), of every 100 American men, 13 will be diagnosed with prostate cancer throughout their lives, and two or three men will die of it.