High profile people diagnosed with Prostate Cancer - Leadership roles

At his age radiation would be the thing to do. Surgery is just not in the picture. Radiation of the prostate, the prostate bed and the metastasis. Of course, if there are over five metastasis, then different treatment may be necessary. Pluvicto or Chemo can be tough on someone that age, and he sure didn’t look like he was in Top physical shape. Will they put him on the below type of drugs first, to see if it’ll shrink and stop what’s going on.

ADT and Darolutamide would give the longest OS. If he can’t handle the ADT then just Darolutamide. I’ve seen people in their 80s with this kind of treatment, Darolutamide has replaced Enzalutamide, Which used to be the second drug mentioned (Embark Trial).

Hey…. I’m not a doctor… I’m not prescribing for him…but this is what I’ve seen. There’s one retired doctor I know in his mid 80s that’s Just on Darolutamide with Gl 9. A few others over at Ancan.org meetings with the same treatment.

From what I’ve seen that is the path to the longest Overall Survival. I wonder if we will ever hear what happens.

The former Canadian Leader of the Opposition, Jack Layton, was diagnosed with PCa in 2010 (at age 60) and died in 2011. There were many fewer treatment options back then for de-novo advanced PCa.

He didn't talk about it much publicly either, but there's more of a tradition in Canada of letting politicians' personal lives stay personal.

When a PM has a separation or divorce, for example (as happened with our previous two PMs, a Conservative and then a Liberal, while they were in office), the press and public mostly consider it irrelevant and leave it alone.

Without getting political or with malice, he has medical issues much deeper than the cancer that most likely prevent him from being a good ambassador. His family seems to take him out for public appearances to get ice cream and to make more money but that is about it. He deserves a peaceful retirement.

Yes, and I suspect that applies to other prominent geriatric political leaders as well. Now we can drop this thread in full agreement and get back to talking about prostate cancer. 😉

President Biden is very old, with multiple health issues and he deserves to spend the rest of his days in peace and without feeling any obligations.
Beside that, every PC case is different and every patient different so his treatment would be his alone and might not be appropriate for other patients.
He will be prescribed medications and possibly radiation and according to HIS needs and HIS ability to tolerate them. So, what treatment he will have is irrelevant to anybody else.
Nobody is obligated to be "an advocate" for any cause. He is a human being as everybody else - maybe he just doesn't feel like it, maybe it makes him nervous, maybe he does not want to think about it all the time, maybe he has no energy, maybe ... you name it. I do not understand what is an infatuation with Biden's cancer in general ? Poor man has a cancer as everybody else here do, so if we as a PC community can not understand another human being in this crappy situation and not wanting to talk about it - than I do not know what to say ...

Rick Steves, who is a travel writer and public television personality, announced his prostate cancer diagnosis a few months back. It sounded at the time like he was planning on a prostatectomy. I think he's ~70 years old. Haven't heard any more about his situation.

I read he had the surgery and is doing fine now.

When I was first diagnosed with low-grade prostate cancer in April 2012, it was a couple of years after I had been elected to our city council. I did not notify the public about my health condition. Privacy still matters, even for a public official. (The public has no inherent right to know.)

But, there were some people outside of my family who had a legal need to know as a matter of protocol - just in case things didn’t turn out well. So, I did tell them - the mayor, vice mayor, other council-members, city manager, and city attorney. Besides them, no one but my medical team and immediate family knew (as far as I know)..

As time went on, and I became aware that more men I knew had prostate cancer, the list of people I told grew larger. My wife even found that some of her friends’ had been on this same journey with their husbands.

It wasn’t until some time later that word had trickled out for long enough that many people knew. 3-1/2 years later (after I was elected mayor of my city), I promoted prostate cancer awareness with a proclamation (see attached).

As an elected official - no differently than with a private citizen - when I felt was the right time to let others know of my prostate cancer diagnosis, was the right time to let them know of my prostate cancer diagnosis.