Newsweek, May 2025
The news that former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with an “aggressive” form of prostate cancer has raised fresh questions about his White House’s transparency. Biden’s office said in a statement on Sunday that he was diagnosed with prostate cancer on Friday, with the cancer cells having spread to the bone.
The news prompted some to question whether Biden may have known about the cancer long before he left office in January since it can be detected early with a prostate specific antigen (PSA) test. However, a professor of oncology told Newsweek that there is no benefit to such screenings and that Biden’s cancer likely “developed rapidly.”
