Washington – Joe Biden was never diagnosed with prostate cancer until last week, and the last time she was examined was more than a decade, a spokesman for the former president said on Tuesday.
“President Biden’s last PSA was in 2014. Before Friday, President Biden had never been diagnosed with prostate cancer,” said the spokesman.
The detection of prostate cancer often implies an antigen or prostate antigen test or PSA, which measures the protein level produced by the prostate and could indicate a potential disease. The test has a high proportion of false positives, and the US preventive services work group does not recommend it for men of 70 years or more, since they are more likely to die of other medical conditions than prostate cancer.
Biden, 82, had his last PSA 11 years ago.
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In recent years, doctors have increasingly started the detection of the disease in older patients. President Donald Trump, 78, received a projection of PSA as recently as this year, according to the medical records published by the White House.
Since he revealed his diagnosis on Sunday, Biden has faced scrutiny about whether cancer had recently grown or if he could not have been diagnosed during his time as president.
According to doctors who treat it, a diagnosis of prostate cancer is rare but not unknown, according to doctors who treat it. Biden cancer has advanced in an aggressive way, with medical experts who say it is treatable but not curable.
Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, an oncologist who did not treat Biden, but served in his Covid Transition Advisory Board, said Monday in “Morning Joe” of MSNBC that cancer had probably been “growing there and spreading” for years. Dr. William Dahut, scientific director of the American Cancer Society, told NBC News that in the case of Biden, “we definitely anticipate that he has had prostate cancer for many, many years.”
Even so, there are exceptions, and some doctors have said that in rare cases patients can develop a form of high -risk cancer that spreads quickly and aggressively.
