Former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, according to a statement from his office released Sunday afternoon.

Biden’s office announced his illness Sunday afternoon.

        • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
          143·
          3 months ago

          I stomached looking at his truth social account so you don’t have to:

          Melania and I are saddened to hear about Joe Biden’s recent medical diagnosis. We extend our warmest and best wishes to Jill and the family, and we wish Joe a fast and successful recovery.

          I guess some pr person has his phone today. He’ll probably say something stupid in an interview later.

          • NotSteve_@lemmy.ca
            663·
            3 months ago

            I checked the Conservative subreddit to see what their reaction was and it’s pretty sympathetic. This made me laugh though

            • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
              30·
              3 months ago

              As if this isn’t the most basic norm of the presidency?

              Has any other president trashed an ex presidents diagnosis (or something similar)?

              • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
                25·
                3 months ago

                Cancer doesn’t care about ideology, but it sure seems like one ideology in the US cares about giving you cancer and denying treatment for it.

                If cancer could vote, it would vote Republican.

                • LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world
                  51·
                  3 months ago

                  Yes. That’s a big reason why a democrat posting in r/conservative calling them classy and wonderful almost made me puke.

            • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
              2·
              3 months ago

              Yeah. Turns out he posted on twitter last night, less than three hours from the OP’s countdown:

              What I want to know is how did Dr. Jill Biden miss stage five metastatic cancer or is this yet another coverup???

              I should note that there is no such thing as stage five cancer, only 1-4. And Jill Biden’s doctorate is in education.

            • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              135·
              3 months ago

              Yeah the comments ITT are pretty awful. I’m no fan of Biden, but some of the comments here are depraved.

              • Krono@lemmy.today
                1513·
                3 months ago

                Aiding and abetting a genocide is depraved.

                Going on national TV and lying about seeing “pictures of 40 beheaded babies” is depraved.

                Celebrating when a war criminal gets prostate cancer? Not depraved at all in my opinion. He deserves much worse.

                • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                  74·
                  3 months ago

                  Aiding and abetting a genocide is depraved.

                  Agreed.

                  Going on national TV and lying about seeing “pictures of 40 beheaded babies” is depraved.

                  Agreed.

                  He deserves much worse.

                  Agreed.

                  Celebrating when a war criminal gets prostate cancer? Not depraved at all in my opinion.

                  Hard disagree.

                  You can acknowledge that he’s an awful person while refraining from celebrating his misfortune.

                  If someone deserves punishment, celebrating that punishment is basically just hatred. I might want to get that looked at.

  • lennee@lemm.eeEnglish
    2487·
    3 months ago

    fuck, i prayed for this but it hit the wrong president

    • errer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4727·
      3 months ago

      While this represents a more aggressive form of the disease, the cancer appears to be hormone-sensitive which allows for effective management.

      Feels like more of the same strategy of downplaying Biden’s symptoms. I bet when he dies they’ll deny it for a few days.

      • Monument@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        51·
        3 months ago

        I don’t disagree that there is a strategy of downplaying not just Biden’s, but every politician’s health conditions.

        I used to have this absolutely incredible writing professor, who, at 85, told us on the first day of class that he was dying, and had been for 4 years. He even had a blog about his reflections on mortality that he invited us to read. He had prostate cancer. I don’t remember the details, but they couldn’t operate to remove it or do chemo, but it was the kind that is hormone sensitive. They gave him a drug that destroyed his body’s ability to produce testosterone, so the cancer just stopped growing. He died at 90 - 9 years after his diagnosis. 10% extra life for him.

        No two people and prognosis’ are alike but the possibility exists they might be telling the truth about managing it.

        • TwanHE@lemmy.world
          5·
          3 months ago

          Some people just defy the odds sometimes, my grandpa was supposed to die 5 or 6 times before he finally did. Multiple times the doctors told us they could no longer do anything for him, only for him to recover and get into the same situation with another issue some years later.

          He lived on borrowed time ever since my mom was born yet lived to see his first grand-grandchild born some 30+ years later.

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      61·
      3 months ago

      the form is still hormone sensitive so its treatable, to an extent, obvious with metasis is lower, but prostate usually have good prognosis, but that depends other factors.

      much like breast cancers that are hormone sensitive, they are treatable, the ones that triple negative or the rare IBC those are very aggressive and they are not affected by anti-hormone therapy.

    • Custard@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      I heard recently it’s incredibly common for men to get diagnosed with prostate cancer and then just die normally from something else. Likely the same happens with him

  • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.eeEnglish
    1777·
    3 months ago

    It should have happened to Trump. Not that Biden is a good guy, but it would be nice if Trump died of an ass related illness.

      • wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        51·
        3 months ago

        Yeah “You’ve got stage 4 cancer. You won’t make it through 4 more years.” is probably the only way to get those old bluedog democrats to gtfo of office.

    • Count042@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      The PSA test is no longer suggested, as more people were injured from complications caused by procedures that false positives caused then people saved.

      My dad almost died from a complication due to a biopsy. About 20 years later, he got prostate cancer which was detected without a PSA test, treated, and is now cancer free.

  • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    972·
    3 months ago

    Why can’t the current president get aggressive cancer? Everyone would love that (although I would pity the cancer).

  • HejMedDig@feddit.dk
    871·
    3 months ago

    It’s going to be interesting to see how Trump will handle that state funeral

  • Wispy2891@lemmy.world
    873·
    3 months ago

    With all the best doctors the presidents have, they discover it only at the fourth stage?

    I’m a lowly peasant and my work let me do a yearly blood+pee test, I assumed that for presidents it would be something like a weekly checkup

    • blakenong@lemmings.worldBanned from communityEnglish
      1234·
      3 months ago

      It’s likely that they knew a long time ago but they are just now announcing it. This would probably also explain why he was so mentally foggy or, seeming like he had dementia. Many cancer drug drugs can do that toyou.

      • jonne@infosec.pub
        854·
        3 months ago

        If that’s the case he was even more wrong about running than everyone assumed.

          • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
            141·
            3 months ago

            I mean, Biden is quoted as calling it a campaign promise.

            Which is is less binding than a pinky promise, but in 2024, he at least saw that he had made the commitment in 2020. Plenty of people in 2024 then were also incorrectly saying that Biden didn’t make that promise.

          • Honytawk@feddit.nl
            41·
            3 months ago

            Compared to Trump winning? Which was the only viable other option during that term.

            • TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
              4·
              3 months ago

              Viable!?! Given Biden only really won because of Covid, I think Bernie would’ve actually had a shot in the general, especially in energizing the base and working class. Warren could’ve also stood a better chance, even if she might not have done as great of a job in office.

              Biden was the worst choice, I thought Buttigieg, Klobuchar, and especially Harris in 2020 were far better, but the capitalist elites wanted a weak old man, so we got Biden, dooming us for 2024 because there was no way he’d be selfless enough to step aside. He might’ve said he’d be one term, but he was lying and that’s why no one took him seriously.

      • Gismonda@lemmy.world
        369·
        3 months ago

        This was exactly my first thought.

        And if so, that’s a double “fuck you” to Joe and everyone on his staff trying to keep this shit under wraps.

        He should have just resigned the goddamn Presidency when he was first diagnosed JFC

        • blakenong@lemmings.worldBanned from communityEnglish
          161·
          3 months ago

          Yeah if he was incapacitated because of drugs he should have let Kamala take over.

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      14·
      3 months ago

      cancers can grow very quickly in the short amount of time, only takes weeks for a tumor to grow large suddenly if its an aggressive type. also many cancers, like melanoma can spread with a small tumor extremely fast. the staging depends on how much its spread, and also by the biopsy how much it infilitrated the layers of tissues.

  • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    10017·
    3 months ago

    Stage 4 cancer with metastasis? Not gonna make it. No amount of money or power can stop a dead man walking.

    But it does make ya wonder why he wanted to run for a second term. He probably won’t make it to the end of the current administration.

    He won’t live long enough to see the major impact of slow rolling Trump’s arrest.

    I wish cancer got the other guy, but I feel no sympathy for an old racist who betrayed various words and didn’t fight back against the fascist hard enough.

  • wpb@lemmy.world
    13252·
    3 months ago

    Thank goodness he lives in a country where the cancer hospitals haven’t been bombed out of existence with weapons funded by the United States under the leadership of Joe Biden.

    • InvertedParallax@lemm.ee
      4936·
      3 months ago

      Would have changed nothing.

      The left would have cried that whoever wasn’t X enough, the right would have rallied around the Second Coming of their True Messiah.

      The Russian playbook is now well-tuned to its audience, our morons.

      • Aabbcc@lemm.ee
        359·
        3 months ago

        When will the left learn that the president has to be pro genocide and have no plan to ease the upcoming financial suffering of young people. The left simply wants too much

  • Vari@lemm.eeEnglish
    551·
    3 months ago

    Lucky for him he’ll get the best medical treatment on the planet. Meanwhile if I broke a leg I’d be destitute