Former President Joe Biden present process radiation remedy for prostate most cancers, spokesperson says

Former President Joe Biden is present process radiation remedy and hormone remedy as a part of a remedy plan for prostate most cancers, a spokesperson instructed CBS Information. 

An individual near Biden tells CBS Information the previous president is doing nicely and responding to remedy. One other particular person acquainted with Biden’s remedy mentioned it started “a couple of weeks in the past and it continues.” He’s being handled in Philadelphia. 

Biden was identified with an “aggressive kind” of prostate most cancers in Could 2025. Based on an announcement from his workplace on the time, 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 like 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 frequent most cancers that impacts males, in response to the Cleveland Clinic. Age is the most typical threat issue. The situation has many types of remedy, together with radiation, chemotherapy, surgical procedure and hormone remedy. 

The previous president was additionally handled for pores and skin most cancers two years in the past. On the time, he was in workplace. The White Home doctor mentioned Biden had a small pores and skin lesion with cancerous tissue faraway from his chest throughout his annual bodily. Additional testing confirmed it was basal cell carcinoma, the most typical type of pores and skin most cancers.

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

NBC Information was the primary to report.