Former President Joe Biden diagnosed with prostate cancer

Former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with prostate cancer his personal office declared on Sunday Last week President Joe Biden was seen for a new finding of a prostate nodule after experiencing increasing urinary markers read a declaration published by the president s personal office On Friday he was diagnosed with prostate cancer characterized by a Gleason figure of Grade Group with metastasis to the bone While this represents a more aggressive form of the complaint the cancer appears to be hormone-sensitive which allows for effective management the comment continued The President and his family are reviewing restoration options with his physicians A spokesperson for Biden s office declared that they do not have any additional comment beyond the office s declaration The former president and his family are meeting with doctors and considering multiple restoration options including hormone medication for the cancer according to a source familiar with Biden s and his family s thinking Joe Biden delivers remarks on Donald Trump s guilty verdict in his hush-money trial before speaking on the Middle East at the White House on May in Washington DC Chip Somodevilla Getty Images Approximately one out of eight men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during their life according to the American Cancer Society The cancer is common in older men and it is the second-leading cause of cancer death in American men with lung cancer being the first according to the society A spokesperson for the former president previously disclosed last Tuesday that a small nodule was located on Biden s prostate which necessitated further evaluation The nodule was detected during a routine physical examination The evaluation comes as Democrats face a reckoning over whether Biden should have run for a second term in the first place Biden s run and subsequent withdrawal stoked deep divisions in the party over whether a run at his age helped contribute to Donald Trump s win in November Biden is the oldest person to have held the presidency Trump at was the oldest person to be inaugurated president This is a growing story Please check back for updates This article originally appeared on NBCNews com Read more from NBC News JD Vance s Vatican visits center his Catholicism in his vice presidency Mike Pence criticizes Trump on tariffs and key foreign guidelines issues as he watches from afar Scott Bessent calls Moody s a lagging indicator after U S credit downgrade