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9. Biden says he has started cancer treatment: 'The prognosis is good'
Fri May 30, 2025, 06:52 PM
May 30

Former president Joe Biden said he’s optimistic about his treatment in his first comments since his office revealed he has an aggressive form of prostate cancer.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/30/biden-health-prostate-cancer-update/

Former president Joe Biden, in his first public comments since announcing his prostate cancer diagnosis this month, said Friday that “we’re going to be able to beat this,” adding that he has started taking medications and is working with a leading surgeon.

“The prognosis is good. We’re working on everything. It’s moving along, and I feel good. All the folks are very optimistic,” Biden, 82, told reporters after speaking at a Memorial Day event in his home state of Delaware......

In his remarks at the Memorial Day event in New Castle, Delaware, Biden noted that “our politics have become so divided, so bitter. All the years I’ve been doing this, I never thought we’d get to this point, but we are.”

The event coincided with the 10th anniversary of the loss of his son Beau Biden, a veteran who died of brain cancer. Biden said that it was “a hard day” but that being at the event “with all of you, quite frankly, makes things a little bit easier.” He was joined at the event by Beau’s son, Robert “Hunter” Biden II, and said Beau’s legacy lives on “just like the legacy of all our fallen heroes.”

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