Biden completes spherical of radiation remedy to deal with aggressive prostate most cancers

Former President Joe Biden has accomplished a spherical of radiation remedy to deal with an aggressive type of prostate most cancers — an encouraging signal of progress — however one that doesn’t sign the top of his therapy.

A Biden spokeswoman confirmed to CBS Information Monday that the previous president, who turns 83 subsequent month, completed a number of weeks of radiation remedy therapy Monday at Penn Drugs Radiation Oncology in Philadelphia. His workplace first introduced Oct. 11 that the previous president had been present process radiation therapy for prostate most cancers for a number of weeks. 

“He rang the bell in the present day,” Biden spokeswoman Kelly Scully stated.

Ashley Biden, the daughter of the previous president, posted on Instagram a fast video clip of her father ringing the bell, with the caption, “Rung the bell! Thanks to the unbelievable medical doctors, nurses, and employees at Penn Drugs. We’re so grateful!”

Subsequent photographs posted by the one-time first daughter present the previous president posing with a medical skilled, and one other with former first woman Jill Biden and two of their grandchildren with the caption, “Dad has been so rattling courageous all through his therapy. Grateful.”

Most most cancers therapy facilities encourage sufferers to ring a wall-mounted bell once they full most cancers therapy to sign their progress and encouragement to different sufferers. However it’s unclear presently whether or not Biden might want to bear another therapy, since medical doctors all the time have to assess a affected person’s progress within the weeks after they full most cancers therapy.

Biden introduced in Could that he had a complicated stage of prostate most cancers that has metastasized, or unfold, to his bones, prompting an outpouring of concern and a brand new spherical of questions on his well being and whether or not he confronted undisclosed or unknown medical challenges throughout his presidency.

In keeping with a press release from his workplace in Could, the previous president was identified with “prostate most cancers, characterised by a Gleason rating of 9 (Grade Group 5) with metastasis to the bone” after a small nodule was discovered within the prostate.

Gleason scores are a grading system, and the decrease the grade, the extra most cancers cells appear to be regular cells. A rating of 9 is the second-highest, CBS Information beforehand reported, and locations Biden in probably the most aggressive threat class. 

Prostate most cancers is the second-most widespread most cancers that impacts males, in response to the Cleveland Clinic. Age is the commonest threat issue. The situation has many types of therapy, together with radiation, chemotherapy, surgical procedure and hormone therapy. 

Biden additionally underwent a pores and skin most cancers surgical procedure in September 2025. That process was a Mohs surgical procedure, which includes slicing away skinny layers of pores and skin till solely cancer-free tissue stays within the affected space. 

The previous president is sometimes noticed in Washington, the place he nonetheless retains an workplace, and aboard Amtrak trains to and from his residence in Delaware. He has begun fundraising and planning for an eventual library and museum documenting his time within the White Home.