Over the weekend, we learned that Joe Biden, only four months removed from the Oval Office, had been diagnosed with aggressive, metastatic prostate cancer. Well wishes rightly poured in for Biden. But it’s hard to separate the diagnosis from the recent weeks of debate and criticism about how the Biden White House controlled and hid other Biden medical issues from the American public before the 2024 election cycle.
To start, let’s take a methodical view of Biden’s prostate cancer. Prostate cancer is by far the most common cancer diagnosis among men. Roughly one in eight men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during their lifetime. Many physicians believe it is vastly underdiagnosed. Prostate cancers accounted for over 313,000 cancer diagnoses last year alone — the second most common after breast cancer. For men, that is approximately three times more prevalent than lung cancer, and five times more than colon cancer.
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