The 82-year-old former president of the USA Joe Biden was diagnosed with grade group 5 prostate cancer.
Former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed his personal office announced on Sunday, May 18
According to a statement released from his office on May 18, it said that an octogenarian Biden was diagnosed with “aggressive” prostate cancer “with metastasis to the bone” on Friday, May 16.
“The President and his family are reviewing treatment options with his physicians,” the statement reads.
“Last week, President Joe Biden was seen for a new finding of a prostate nodule after experiencing increasing urinary symptoms,” the statement said.
According to the American Cancer Society, a prostate cancer’s grade group is a measure of how likely the cancer is to grow and spread quickly. Grade group 5 means that “the cancer might or might not be growing outside the prostate and into nearby tissues. It has not spread to nearby lymph nodes or elsewhere in the body,” per the Cancer Society.
“In a routine physical exam, a small nodule was found in the prostate which necessitated further evaluation,” the spokesperson said at the time.
