Former President Joe Biden is not only facing a battle with an aggressive form of prostate cancer that has since spread to his bones, but also accusations by the MAHA of keeping the diagnosis a secret until recently.
According to a statement issued by Biden’s office, the 82-year-old received the cancer diagnosis after experiencing urinary issues. The tests doctors ran showed the presence of a lump in his prostate.
Current President Donald Trump posted on the social media that he and First Lady Melania are saddened by Biden’s diagnosis. Vice-President JD Vance also shared the same sentiment.
However, their allies and supporters started sharing conspiracy theories that Biden in fact knew of his condition while still in office, claiming prostate cancer is the easiest cancer to diagnose and that it takes around 5-7 years before this form of cancer spreads to other organs.
Speaking to reporters on Monday, Trump said, “I think it’s very sad, actually. I’m surprised that… the public wasn’t notified a long time ago because to get to stage nine [the stage of disease that Biden faces is] that’s a long time.”
He added that “somebody is not telling the facts. … It’s a big problem.”
Vance said he hoped Biden “makes the right recovery” and added, “We really do need to be honest about whether the former president was capable of doing the job.”
Donald Trump Jr. also made a comment about Biden’s diagnosis that many dubbed “savage.”
Biden didn’t speak of his diagnosis except for thanking everyone for their love and support in a social media post.
According to medical specialists, it is not unheard of for this form of cancer to be diagnosed at its late stage, just like in the case of Biden.
“We can’t rule out the possibility that it was an aggressive form that developed quickly,” Natacha Naoun, an oncologist with France’s Gustave-Roussy Institute said.
Annual PSA screening isn’t recommended for people aged 70 and above.
According to the US Preventive Services Task Force, the reason for this is that the risks of false positives may lead to tiring biopsies and treatments that outweigh the benefits.
“It could be they decided to stop checking PSA annually, and then he had urinary symptoms,” Russell Pachynski, an oncologist with Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, explained. He added that prostate cancer patients do not always experience telltale pains or signs.
A prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test, which measures the quantity of proteins produced by the prostate gland, is used to screen for prostate cancer.
Biden likely didn’t get tested after 75, but even if he did, cancer might have escaped detection.
“Aggressive prostate cancer can occur at low PSA levels,” Yale Cancer Centre chief of genitourinary oncology and medical oncologist Dr. Daniel Petrylak told the Daily Mail.
“Higher grade tumors tend to make less PSA per cancer cell than low grade tumors, so it is possible that this tumor may have been missed by PSA.”
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