On Biden's prostate cancer and dealing with disease "down there"

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On Biden’s prostate cancer and dealing with disease “down there”
Joe Biden did more for cancer research than any president in recent memory

By Lucian K. Truscott IV
Columnist
Published May 21, 2025 6:00AM (EDT)


(Salon) Adiagnosis of prostate cancer is a kick in the proverbial slats. Really. You don’t want to hear the word, “cancer,” at all…anytime…ever. But if you’re male, the best time to hear it is after a blood test comes back with your PSA number unusually elevated. The PSA number isn’t in and of itself a diagnosis, but it gets your attention. Nobody wants to hear that there is a strong likelihood they’ve got cancer, but a high PSA number means that if you’ve got cancer, it’s down there, which lightens the diagnosis considerably. Joe Biden’s office announced on Sunday that he had been diagnosed with stage four prostate cancer on Friday. They did not provide many details beyond that, other than to say the cancer had spread from the prostate to nearby bones.

Stage four prostate cancer is a 10 on the Gleason scale, which measures the severity of the disease, with 6 being the lowest score and 10 the highest. It's not a good diagnosis, but treatments have progressed to the point that it is not a death sentence. Specialists told the New York Times that with today’s treatments, Biden could be expected to live five to ten years after diagnosis and end up dying of natural causes rather than cancer of the prostate. One specialist noted that Biden’s “moonshot” program to reduce cancer deaths, begun when he was vice president after his son Beau’s death from a brain tumor in 2015, probably contributed to the advances in treatment for the disease from which he now suffers. As vice president, Biden negotiated with Republicans in Congress for a $264 million increase in funding for the National Cancer Institute. As president in 2024, Biden announced $150 million in new research grants to eight cancer research centers at universities around the country, including Dartmouth, Rice, and Johns Hopkins.

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To say that those letters catch my attention now is an understatement. It was reported last week that a Senate report found that funding for cancer research had been cut by 31 percent between January and April — 31 percent! The National Cancer Institute alone lost $300 million in funding compared to 2024. Its parent agency, National Institutes of Health, was cut by $2.7 billion. 1,660 grants to research institutions at universities and hospitals have been either eliminated altogether or cut significantly. In all, the Senate report found, $13.5 billion in health funding had been cut by DOGE and the Trump administration by April.

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Joe Biden, who did more for cancer research to find cures than any president in recent memory, will now benefit from some of the research that he promoted. While Donald Trump Jr. charges Jill Biden with “covering up” her husband’s illness – which was announced two days after he was diagnosed – and Donald Trump also questions the timing of Biden’s diagnosis, Trump has effectively thrown this country’s leadership in the realm of cancer research, medical imaging and biomedical cures into the trash. American researchers are taking jobs in Great Britain and Europe to carry on their search for cures. ...............(more)

https://www.salon.com/2025/05/21/on-bidens-prostate-cancer-and-dealing-with-disease-down-there/

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1. Djt does not have cancer,...

..... consequently he feels any money spent on cancer research is just a waste of good money that could otherwise be spent of refurbishing his Palace in the Sky.

Fuck anyone who has cancer says the Orange Traitor, let them eat a RollsRoyce jet engine - that might possibly make them feel better.