"The ex-president's office announced in May that Biden had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer that spread to his bones after he experienced urinary symptoms and a prostate nodule was found. Cancer touches us all. Like so many of you, Jill and I have learned that we are strongest in the broken places, wrote Biden in a post on X after receiving the diagnosis in May. Thank you for lifting us up with love and support."
"Hormone therapy is a common treatment that can shrink tumours and slow cancer growth, but it is not a cure. Prostate cancers are graded for aggressiveness using what is known as a Gleason score. The scores range from 6 to 10, with 8, 9 and 10 prostate cancers behaving more aggressively. Biden's office said his score was 9, suggesting his cancer is among the most aggressive but that the illness is hormone-sensitive, meaning it is likely to respond to treatment."
Joe Biden was diagnosed in May with an aggressive prostate cancer that has spread to his bones. He is undergoing radiation therapy and hormone treatment as part of a treatment plan. The cancer received a Gleason score of 9, indicating high aggressiveness but hormone sensitivity and likely responsiveness to treatment. Hormone therapy can shrink tumours and slow cancer growth but is not curative. Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among men, especially older men; research estimates about 80 percent of men over 80 have some cancerous prostate cells. Biden underwent Mohs surgery in September to remove skin cancer lesions from his forehead, and his son Beau died of brain cancer in 2015.
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