Joe Biden Diagnosed With Aggressive Stage 4 Prostate Cancer, Questions About Timeline And Transparency Raised
New Delhi : Former US President Joe Biden’s recent diagnosis of advanced prostate cancer, which has already spread to his bones, has sparked debate among doctors and users on social media about how quickly the disease could have progressed. Some experts have expressed doubts about whether such an advanced stage could have developed in a short span of time without earlier signs.
Following the former President’s diagnosis, criticism has surfaced on social media targeting his wife, Dr. Jill Biden from Donald Trump Jr., the eldest son of President Donald Trump. “What I want to know is how did Dr. Jill Biden miss stage five metastatic cancer or is this yet another cover-up?” Trump Jr wrote in the post on X.
Dr. Steven Quay, a US-based physician and researcher, raised concerns about the timeline in a post on X that went viral. “Stage 4 prostate cancer doesn’t happen overnight,” he wrote, suggesting that the former President’s medical team may have known about the cancer much earlier than publicly disclosed.
“For even with the most aggressive form, it is a 5-7 year journey without treatment before it becomes metastatic. Meaning, it would be malpractice for this patient to show up and be first diagnosed with metastatic disease in May 2025. It is highly likely he was carrying a diagnosis of prostate cancer throughout his White House tenure and the American people were uninformed,” Quay added.
Biden abruptly ended his bid for re-election and proposed his deputy and then Vice President Kamla Harris as the Democrats’ candidate for the presidential election. Doctors typically recommend routine screening for men over 50 through PSA (prostate-specific antigen) blood tests and digital rectal exams, which can help detect prostate cancer before symptoms arise.
“When the cancer has spread to the bones, that makes it Stage 4. That means that the cancer is not curable. There’s no treatment available that can cure the cancer,” he told Reuters. Dr. George also dismissed suggestions that Biden’s cancer might explain his physical decline during public appearances in recent years.
“I don’t think he had cancer over the last two years and that’s why we saw physical decline on television. I think probably that happened from something else and this cancer just happened to be diagnosed,” he said. “In a lot of patients that get diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer, the treatment usually starts the day of the diagnosis,” he told Reuters.
“So patients may get started, may start on their androgen deprivation therapy, which is pretty much like hormone castration. So we’re trying to like slow down the cancer which can be fed by hormones or testosterone. So the treatment starts there, and then as more evaluations are being given and as they see more specials as we’re expanding the team, more things may be added based on what that specific patient needs,” said Dr. Brahmbhatt.
Dr. Chris George, medical director of the cancer program for the Northwestern Health Network, clarified that once prostate cancer spreads to the bones, it is considered incurable. “When the cancer has spread to the bones, that makes it Stage 4. That means that the cancer is not curable. There’s no treatment available that can cure the cancer,” he.