Joe Biden Diagnosed With “Aggressive Form” of Cancer
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🗓️ 19 May 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:24.5 | Eger, who is the author of Morning Shots. We're coming to you on Sunday afternoon. |
| 0:28.9 | Andrew, for some reasons, in the office, but that's just because he's diligent. |
| 0:32.5 | We're going to be talking about pretty somber news that passed the transit today. |
| 0:36.0 | Ex-president Joe Biden has been diagnosed with |
| 0:38.9 | cancer. This was the statement from his press person, quote, last week, President Joe Biden |
| 0:45.7 | was seen for a new finding of a prostate nodule after experiencing increasing urinary symptoms. |
| 0:52.0 | On Friday, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, characterized by a Gleason's |
| 0:55.7 | score of nine, grade group five, with metastasis to the bone. While this represents a more |
| 1:02.2 | aggressive form of the disease, the cancer appears to be hormone sensitive, which allows for |
| 1:06.3 | effective management. The president and his family are reviewing treatment options with his physicians. |
| 1:12.1 | So, I mean, obviously this is a fairly sadding news for the ex-president and the people who love him. |
| 1:19.8 | It's unavoidably coming amid a very difficult stretch for him about his presidency and whether he |
| 1:27.0 | was fit for service during it. And I'm not |
| 1:31.3 | totally sure, honestly, how this or if this should affect that conversation. But I have a |
| 1:37.5 | couple thoughts. The first, and Andrew, you can jump in whenever you want, is that, you know, |
| 1:42.7 | you feel for the guy on a human level, put aside the |
| 1:45.3 | politics. |
| 1:46.1 | And obviously, that's totally separate. |
| 1:48.0 | And I think ripe for criticism, of course. |
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