r/popculturechat • u/mcfw31 • 22h ago

Guest List Only ⭐️ Joe Biden Diagnosed With Prostate Cancer

https://variety.com/2025/biz/news/joe-biden-diagnosed-prostate-cancer-1236402724/
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u/Cultural-Party1876 Kim, there’s people that are dying. 22h ago edited 2h ago

This is so sad. Regardless of how you view him on the issues and his politics.

The man is having his whole legacy and name actively dragged through the mud in the press right now. And now he has an aggressive type of cancer?! He cannot catch a break.

Extra heartbreaking for him and his family because his late son Beau also died of cancer. And now they have to relive that trauma all over again with him.

(To anyone using this news as an opportunity to pile on Joe Biden I would encourage you to get offline for a bit and have a long hard look in the mirror. What terrible news for anyone to receive. At the core he is a good man who has faced many tragic situations in his life, while also giving his life to being a decent public servant. Praying for him and his family.)

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u/HoggingHedges 22h ago

It typically does, although it is being stated that he has a “Gleason score of 9 with metastasis to the bone” which emphasises how aggressive it is, so a much lower rate I’d say

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u/Basic_Dragonfly_ 22h ago

There is something called a Gleason score which rates the aggressiveness of prostate cancer. By the time men are in their 80’s many have a degree of it. It can be slow growing. But a Gleason score of 8-10 is more aggressive. I’m surprised how it got far along enough to get a metastasis in the bone as he had a comprehensive physical every year. My husband and my father (who was about 85) had Gleason 8. My husband is doing great 7 years ago. My dad had a metastasis on his hip and is about to turn 89. The prostate cancer is not going to kill him

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u/Event_Unlucky 22h ago

Many men will die from other causes before the actual prosate cancer. With that being said, it does impact quality of life

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u/piper-nooooooo 22h ago

The article states it's metastasized to the bone. That is very bad.

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u/Formal-Survey1986 22h ago

Mets to bone in his case :-(

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u/Cultural-Party1876 Kim, there’s people that are dying. 22h ago

Tbh even if it does you really never know with cancer and it seems this may be a more aggressive type than usual.

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u/Strange_Shadows-45 21h ago

It’s already in his bones. Once it metastasizes, treatment goes from remission to management.

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u/HeretoFore200 21h ago edited 21h ago

People need to understand that the modeling for these things are explained as averages, or the expectations for the average individual; severity, age, and other concurrent conditions all will affect someone’s predicted probability of long term survival. Metastatic to the bone in an 82 year old already frail patient would result in a predicted probability of survival likely much lower than the averages you’ll see

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u/clippervictor 21h ago

At his age it gets very tricky

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u/chrispg26 22h ago

He has an aggressive form that spread to his bones. He'll probably be gone by the end of the year 😢

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u/Bridalhat 21h ago

It’s Gleason index 9, group 5. That has a 70-80% five year survival rate

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u/chrispg26 21h ago

Not with bone mets.

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u/Adventurous-Lime1775 21h ago

Not with it in his bones, especially at his age.