Biden will be here soon: Former President metastatic prostate cancer

Why do you think they would have put him on ADT couple of months ago, if he was just diagnosed PC last Friday? I have all the respect for President Biden, and I hope he has many more years of healthy life.
It is just confusing the information his team is putting out. He is retired and the public doesn't have to know every detail of his health. But, if they are putting out information it should be accurate and helpful to fellow PC patients.

Biden's team has not put out any information that he was put on ADT a couple of months ago. There is no evidence, nor have there been any official statements put out by Biden's press office or spokesperson, that he has ever been put on ADT. I think that north was just running a "what if" exercise before we had very much information.

I think that everybody on the news is now "beating a dead horse" .
How is his diagnosis relevant in the big scheme of things , I do not understand. Poor man has cancer, stage 4 and zero privacy and he does not hold any office. WHO cares what happened and when ? Today is May 20. 2025, so many horrible things are happening in the world, Biden is NOT the president and if poor 82 year old retired man had prostate test done perhaps in March and is NOW having the strength to accept the facts and announce it - why is that a big deal ? There are so many more important and urgent things to cover on the news that this is all now travesty IMHO.
FINALLY they stopped referring to his cancer as "stage 9" *eyeroll Honestly, news are now like what cheap talk-shows were in the 80-ies when I first came to the USA .

I was Laughed out of a Urologist office this year because I am 78 and wanted a PSA test. It has been 5 years or more since I had one done!
The "IDIOT" said they don't do them on men over 75!! This was after my PCP scheduled the appoint! When I came back and told him what the "IDIOT" told me they don't do them for men over 75 he said that was right!! I'm looking for a new PCP! Anyone in the Four Corners area of the country, anyone know of a GOOD PCP send me a PRIVATE MESSAGE!
Luckily the PSA came back ok!
Thanks,
Sundance, aka, RB

I haven't heard from any source whether or not his obvious dementia hinders any particular treatment. Regardless, I wish him well.

Dementia is terrible disease with no particular treatment available. We are ALL getting older and we all will face some level of forgetfulness and some will have real dementia , so ... About 25% of people over 80 has dementia.
Probably good % of the senate and house have some level of dementia due to advanced age.

Wow. They're right.

I checked a number of NZ urology sites & they all agree.

Above the age of 75 we do not recommend routine screening as the risks of investigation and treatment outweigh the potential benefits.

Being tested for prostate cancer is your choice. Your decision depends on:
whether you have a family history of prostate cancer in your father or brother (this doubles your risk of prostate cancer).
your age and life expectancy – if you're over 75 years of age, or expect your lifetime to be less than 10 years, you shouldn't be tested for prostate cancer as the harm is higher than the benefit.

There is no strong evidence to suggest that testing men over the age of 70 years reduces
mortality from prostate cancer in this age group. Generally men aged over 70 years, who have a normal-feeling prostate on digital rectal examination (DRE) and who have had ‘normal’ PSA tests in the past, should be advised they are not likely to benefit from any further PSA testing.

Maybe a subsequent biopsy is too invasive a procedure at that age, or recovery is more painful/difficult?
Must be the whole 'do no harm' thing.

It's come out, they were hiding it. How very sad.

There is no evidence that anyone was hiding anything. The facts show that Biden went to the doctor recently after experiencing urinary symptoms and that the subsequent diagnostic work revealed his current metastatic prostate cancer.

as president and a man considering another run for president he should have had full exam including digital rectal exam and the PSA blood. test. I simply don't understand if he did not.