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  1. Thanks for this, Neo. I also found, with a quick search, indications that a sudden diagnosis is possible. The sad fact is that, since the Biden administration lied about everything else, people are not inclined to believe this story.

  2. I know a bit about prostate cancer, I am going to turn 80 in a couple of weeks and I had prostate cancer in 2001 and a prostatectomy where the doc left enough of the outside to allow me to stiffen up from time to time loving on my wife. I was 56 years old when I had several points of elevation with the PSA test and my doc sent me to an excellent urologist who did my surgery a week after 9-11 and my recovery was good. I stayed dry for over 10 years and then as the years when by I had to use a pad and when I complained to my doc about that he said, “Shut up, you don’t have cancer, so there’s that.”

    I injured my left kidney in a ski accident when I was 18 and it only performs 10% of its function, in the follow up on my prostate cancer my urologist discovered cancer in my right kidney right next to the blood supply in 2007. He did the surgery on my kidney cutting me open a bit to get the cancer with good margins and it was successful however it left some of my lateral muscles bulging out where the nerves had been cut. I kind of gripped about that and got the same response from my doc, “Shut up, you don’t have cancer.” We laughed a lot about that and discovered kidney cancer in the right kidney in 2011 during a follow up scan and that was corrected with a laparoscopy and here I am still going years later, kind of banged up a bit but in good shape. I do regular six month blood work check ups and annual scans with my urologist and about a month ago I was pleased to have all my work done, no PSA numbers at all and nothing growing down in the netherlands that we need to worry about.

    I have helped some others working with a cancer support group at our church and after losing six friends to this cancer I had to step back and let other folks help guys along when they have this stuff and don’t catch it in time. I do recommend checkups as old men age along and if stuff pops up, work hard to find several opinions with good doctors and then jump in a get the best treatment you can.

    A friend of mine four years ago was diagnosed with lots of cancer in several organs and he was told to get his affairs in order because he was a mess. When he told me that I said, I’m sorry but you might want to get several opinions and if you have a chance to beat this shit, just jump in and let your doctors do their best and now he is still around after a hard fight for most of a year. We used to be part of a veteran weekly coffee group, he is about my age and he flew ground support aircraft in Nam in the old days, he sent me a thank you text a month ago thanking me for advising him to try to fight the cancer.

    Anyway, as far as Biden is concerned, I wish him the best in his battle and whether they just found out recently of they have known about his cancer for years it doesn’t matter anymore. He is a goofy, old man who talks to clouds and he is way past his sell by for anything but taking care of himself. So there’s that.

  3. Related:

    “Script Flipped: Shock Cancer Diagnosis Wipes Biden Autopen-Presidency From Headlines”—
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/script-flipped-shock-cancer-diagnosis-wipes-biden-autopen-presidency-headlines

    …and especially this:

    ‘”…The Entire Profession Sold Out The Country To Act As The Democrats’ Damage Control Agency…”’—
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/entire-profession-sold-out-country-act-democrats-damage-control-agency

    + (Trump-bashing) Bonus….
    “Guess Who Democrats Blame For The Mexican Pirate Ship Smashing Into Brooklyn Bridge…”—
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/guess-who-democrats-blame-mexican-pirate-ship-smashing-brooklyn-bridge

  4. “… He is a goofy, old man…”

    You’re a far better man than I.

    As far as I’m concerned, he’s been a major cog in the Democratic Party’s malicious and ongoing attempt to destroy individuals, cities, states, society and the country.

    Yes, a malicious and ongoing policy of destruction.

    OMMV.

  5. OldTexan

    You are much further along in your cancer journey than I am. But I take encouragement from your story. My first 6 month workup is in October and I hope for good results. I’m just hoping for 5 more years.

    I’ve said it before, but M D Anderson has been fantastic for me and one reason we decided on Jax, was its presence as well as Mayo. My PCP told me last week in our catchup appointment, she thought MDA was a better option than Mayo. If you have to travel to get to an MDA, Sloan, etc, do it.

  6. The thing of it is, we can’t believe a word from Biden or his people. They all have less than zero credibility on everything.

  7. Following on to Cornhead….

    I flat don’t believe they made the diagnosis a few days ago on Friday.

    Maybe they’ve only known for a few months (which I doubt) or maybe they’ve known since 2020 or earlier.

    But they didn’t just discover this a few days ago and — son of a gun! — right before the Tapper & Thompson book comes out.

    This was as cynically timed as all those blanket pardons which the Biden team signed and released in the very last fifteen minutes of the Biden presidency.

  8. I ran into one theory, forgotten where, that the plan was to drag Biden across the finishing line in 2024, have him announce the sudden discovery of his cancer then his resignation, thus avoiding messy discussions of his cognitive decline.

    Kamala Harris becomes president and the cabal plays on.

  9. OldTexan, what kind of scan? I have had Prostate Cancer, had Brekkie Therapy, radioactive seed implants. That was 9 yrs ago. Do annual PSA, it is about .45. I can’t have MRI because of the seeds.
    I had a Gleason of 5.5 so had a biopsy, that’s when confirmed I had Cancer.

  10. Seconding physicsguy on MDA. My mom had breast cancer, and her doctors in this state said she would have to have a double mastectomy. She went to MDA for a second opinion, and the doctors said a double mastectomy wasn’t needed: they could surgically remove the tiny amount of cancerous tissue and do radiation instead. My mom was quite glad she could keep both of her breasts, as you may imagine!

  11. huxley:

    They probably didn’t just “discover” the first signs a few days ago. But they certainly may have finished the diagnostic process a few days ago. It takes a while. First there’s the red flag – in Biden’s case, the nodule. Then there’s the MRI. Then there’s scheduling the biopsy and getting the results of the biopsy – the Gleason score. Then there’s the PET scan which looks at whether there are metastases. Then there is the overall plan for treatment. For normal people it takes quite a while – in the case of the person I know, many months. For Biden of course it can be expedited. But it still takes time.

    It’s not clear when the nodule had been found, but the news of the nodule was announced around the time of the Tapper book. That was on May 13, but whether the rest of the tests had yet been performed, and if so when they had been performed, is not known. So it’s possible that he got a full diagnosis only a few days ago, or a few weeks ago, or a few months ago. I doubt it was earlier.

    On the other hand, as with most elderly men, he probably had prostate cancer on the cellular level years ago. But I doubt he had any signs of it until at least fairly recently.

  12. The nicest thing I can say about Biden is that he’s an incestuous serial pedophile.

  13. From the “Once Bitten, Twice Shy” File…**

    “2022. Don Lemon reports on an email sent in 2020 from Barack Obama to former White House physician Ronny Jackson.

    “Biden was showing obvious signs of cognitive decline during his 2020 campaign and Jackson had posted about it. Obama was not happy.”—
    https://instapundit.com/720599/

    Mobsters all the way down….

    ** AKA the “Cement Shoes” File.

  14. Alan Colbo (8:07 pm) said: “The nicest thing I can say about Biden is that he’s . . . .”

    I saw something somewhere earlier today going into how the left would react to a diagnosis of cancer discovered in Donald Trump. I think that most of us here have an awfully good idea of the reaction, such that we (and I) really don’t have to delve into a pungent description.

    [Think: Hamas-niks and associated garbage reacting to the October 7, 2023 pogrom.]

    Let’s keep it classy on our side; one of the two sides in the socio-political war ought to.

  15. I’m saddened by the Scott Adams news.
    I’m not surprised by the Biden revelation, and sad only in the sense that he’s still being used for gain by those around him. He’s never been a “good” man…and AFAIK, never been overly thoughtful or gracious to others. Sometimes you get justice in this life and the one to come. Sometimes just the latter.

  16. I was listening to Dr. David Samadi – a fairly famous urologist – on Megyn Kelly this evening and he made an interesting point: The only way to determine whether prostate cancer is hormone sensitive is to administer hormone blockers and watch whether the PSA decreases over time. No way they could have gone from nodule discovery to this point in a few weeks or months.

  17. Alan:

    What that doctor said isn’t strictly true. It’s possible it’s the only CERTAIN way to tell if a cancer is hormone-sensitive, but there are other ways to see if it’s most likely hormone-sensitive and therefore whether hormone blockers are a good idea. Here’s a description of one such test.

  18. A professor put it this way: “There are two types of men, those who have prostate cancer, and those who will have prostate cancer.” Such encouraging news, it was.

  19. It would be my wager that his cancer was discovered and treated years ago and has recurred.

  20. For once Brandon doesn’t have to conflate his difficulty with his other son, Beau.

  21. My grandfather had prostrate cancer, though he died of pneumonia before it advanced too far. As I recall, the higher the test score, the faster and more aggressive the cancer is. The doctors don’t usually test for prostrate cancer until the patient starts showing symptoms, like urinating more frequently, etc.
    Biden had a score of 9, which means this particular cancer is very fast and aggressive indeed. So it’s quite possible-probable even-that he was in the “all clear” stage four months ago, and then the doctors tested him when he started showing symptoms, and found the cancer,

  22. A professor put it this way: “There are two types of men, those who have prostate cancer, and those who will have prostate cancer.” Such encouraging news, it was.
    ==
    The median age of those diagnosed with prostate cancer is about 68. At this time, per PopulationPyramid, age cohorts among men between their 65th and 70th birthday currently average about 1.9 million in population. The American Cancer Society reports that there are currently 288,000 cases of prostate cancer diagnosed per year; (288,000 / 1,900,000) = 0.15. That’s somewhat short of 100%.

  23. While everything Neo said is true and that it is entirely possible for someone to be diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer at baseline, I also agree with the others who say the timing of this announcement is way too convenient.

    At the same time, if the Biden handlers really wanted to get back at the media and everyone who dumped on him, they should’ve said he was diagnosed during his time in office and had brain metastases, and that the media knew but refused to report on it. Serves the double purpose of making up a reason for his cognitive issues other than dementia and get back at those like Tapper who are trying to pin the cover up of his condition on the White House staff alone

  24. @Chuck: “There are two types of men, those who have prostate cancer, and those who will have prostate cancer.” Such encouraging news, it was.

    In the end we all have to die of something. I bet there’s much worse than prostate cancer to die of.

  25. Via Zerohedge, Kit Knightly points out some facts of life in the newsworld, and raises the obvious question; most pundits have speculated that it is to draw attention away from the books by the faux-journalists excusing themselves for not noticing that Biden was senile from the get-go.

    https://off-guardian.org/2025/05/19/what-joe-bidens-cancer-can-and-should-teach-us-about-the-media/

    The conversation has gone in two predictable directions.

    On the one hand you have the predictable “out pouring of support” from fans of Team Blue, “liberal” journalists and celebrities.

    On the other hand you have cynical commentary from Team Red, questioning the timing of the announcement and wondering how someone with such a high profile and (presumably) first class medical care could have cancer missed until such a late stage.

    A third, quieter, option is to suggest a connection between this cancer and the Covid “vaccine”. (A possibility I reject out of hand, because I don’t believe there is any chance at all he was really given the experimental shot.)

    But all of these conversations miss the point.

    The question is not “what caused Biden’s cancer?” or “why did they cover up Biden’s cancer?” it’s “why are they telling us Biden has cancer?”

    Remember, the same media reporting “Biden has cancer” spent months reporting “Biden doesn’t have dementia” and “Biden’s as sharp as ever”, despite plain evidence to the contrary.

    They lied. Over and and over again, for years. They quite literally told you to disregard the evidence of your eyes and ears.

    Until they stopped, and suddenly Joe Biden’s “mental decline” was no longer a conspiracy theory, but totally real and the reason to put Kamala Harris on the ballot.

    Joe Biden’s mental acuity did not change, all that changed was the requirement of the narrative.

    Media reportage has no correlation with the truth. Not negative correlation, no correlation. They are unrelated.

    If Joe Biden had cancer, and it was narratively convenient that he did not, they would say he did not.

    If Joe Biden didn’t have cancer, and it was narratively convenient that he did, they would say he did.

    If it becomes narratively convenient that Biden no longer has cancer, they will just say it went away – and that will have no bearing or relation on whether or not it did go away, or ever existed in the first place.

    If Joe Biden died tomorrow, and it was narratively convenient he was alive, they would pretend he was alive. And with current video and photo editing software it wouldn’t even be that hard.

    The news cycle has a purpose that is not related to facts or truth – again, not “opposed to” but “not related” – and as such our conversations about “the news” must be had, almost entirely, on the meta level.

    Why this? Why now?

  26. AesopFan,

    With all due respect to Knightly, it really isn’t possible to cover up a President’s (or exPresident’s) serious illness for too long, especially not in this day and age. Yes, the WH press corps covered up the fact that FDR was in a wheelchair most of the time, but that was before there was a TV in every household. Yes, Nancy Reagan and Reagan’s aides covered up Reagan’s decline from Alzheimer’s disease, but that was before 24 hour cable news and the internet.

    Remember the pandemic, when Trump came down with COVID and had to be hospitalized? He had more reason than anybody to say that COVID was hard to catch (and wasn’t serious if you did catch it), but it was impossible to ignore the WH trip to the ER.

    It’s the same with Biden. He underwent the medical tests and the doctors found the cancer. Even if all his friends, family, and aides decided to keep it on the down low, they couldn’t keep the news media from reporting it: someone in the medical offices would have leaked it and it would still hit the headlines.

    Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Sometimes a President getting sick is just a President getting sick. Not everything is a conspiracy.

  27. neo:

    I don’t see that your comment solves the problem, which is the handy coincidence of the nodule and diagnosis within a very short window, just as the Tapper book was becoming a big problem and playing the cancer card was great crisis management, however sad.

    Given the vagaries of prostate cancer, that nodule/diagnosis could have happened months ago or months ahead, but it happened right in the middle of the worst crisis of Biden’s post-Presidency.

    I question the timing. The announcement sure looks timed.

  28. Yes, Nancy Reagan and Reagan’s aides covered up Reagan’s decline from Alzheimer’s disease

    That’s a steaming pile of both-sidesism. Reagan did not announce his Alzheimer’s diagnosis until 1994, almost a decade after he left the Presidency, and specifically referenced it as ‘recent’. On average it takes roughly 3 years from the onset of Alzheimer’s before the symptoms are sufficiently advanced to confirm a diagnosis. It is almost impossible to square that timeline with the insinuation that Reagan was affected by Alzheimer’s at any point in his Presidency but it was covered up. Plenty of us were around back then and know what the media environment was like.

  29. With all due respect to Knightly, it really isn’t possible to cover up a President’s (or exPresident’s) serious illness for too long, especially not in this day and age. Yes, the WH press corps covered up the fact that FDR was in a wheelchair most of the time, but that was before there was a TV in every household. Yes, Nancy Reagan and Reagan’s aides covered up Reagan’s decline from Alzheimer’s disease, but that was before 24 hour cable news and the internet.
    ==
    The first bit of nonsense you’re peddling is a meme that appeared in magazine journalism around about 1982. Members of the public such as my mother (a child at the time) were perfectly aware that Roosevelt was in a wheel-chair. See also the foundation of the March of Dimes during that era.
    ==
    The second bit of nonsense has been discredited by the emergence of Mr. Reagan’s handwritten notes and correspondence from late in his administration and by the testimony of his doctor of the time (who said that his memory issues ca. 1987 were not distinguishable from the normal aging process) and his daughter, who identified quite precisely when she noted something amiss (May 1993) and just what it was (she discovered in a casual conversation that he’d forgotten one of his roles as a screen actor). Reagan’s presentation was one you see now and again (and I’ve seen in friends with Alzheimer’s). He did not decline incrementally, but had a catastrophic collapse over a period of shy of two years. His biographer (who despised him) said his loss of function between August of 1994 and February of 1995 was stunning.

  30. The doctors don’t usually test for prostrate cancer until the patient starts showing symptoms, like urinating more frequently, etc.

    The problem is that most men routinely have these symptoms as they age, due to Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH), i.e. an enlarged prostate. And along with that, it’s not uncommon to have an elevated (though stable) PSA. I have had both for around 5 years. I got an MRI, which didn’t show anything, but is also not dispositive. Even a biopsy (which I also got 4 years ago, which did not reveal any cancer) is also not dispositive unless it finds cancer, since it’s only a random sample of the tissue. So with all the false positives and negatives, it’s not so easy to diagnose until it progresses to some more detectable level. Fortunately it seems to be more often slow-moving and treatable.

  31. That’s a steaming pile of both-sidesism. Reagan did not announce his Alzheimer’s diagnosis until 1994, almost a decade after he left the Presidency,
    ==
    It was five years and change after he’d left office. There’s a handwritten manuscript of his public statement delivered at the time. He wrote it.
    ==
    Joseph Biden is a perfectly filthy human being. You’d never say that of Ronald Reagan.

  32. I just saw the Kelly interview with Dr. Samadi this morning. I don’t understand how Neo (self proclaimed not a doctor or oncologist) can so easily dismiss what he said. I’ve now seen several interviews with various MDs (even on MSNBC). There’s seems to be a significant amount of confusion about the timeline among many of these professionals. I think huxley is correct to be suspicious.

    I almost wish I had an upcoming appointment with my MDA urological oncologist surgeon. I’d love to ask him. However, I’ve now been passed on to his PA-C for the future. I guess I could ask her on Thursday.

  33. Heh….

    “David Axelrod Says Talk of Biden Mental Decline Should be ‘Set Aside’ After Cancer Diagnosis”—
    https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/05/david-axelrod-says-talk-of-biden-mental-decline-should-be-set-aside-after-cancer-diagnosis/

    But of course it should!
    Since, clearly, it’s the ONLY appropriate—not to mention decent—thing to do WRT Decent Joe…and “his” Decent Politburo!

    Besides, how else ya’ gonna best be able to cover up the coverup of the coverup of the coverup of the coverup of the…?

    (Tell ya’ it’s so touching to see how damn decent them Democrats are…)

  34. There’s what possible concerning prostate cancer, and then there’s what’s likely. When we consider what’s likely, that’s where that old serpent “context” comes into play. Democrats love using context to hit Republicans over the head; it’s one of their greatest tools.

    Well, in this case, the tool is in our hands. Biden had a disastrous presidency, where it seemed like he was declining before our very eyes. Crises were all over the place, and we were lied to about their existence and severity, by the administration and by the press. He gets out of the presidency, his team loses decisively, and now a book is coming out, with probably just enough truth in it to damage what’s left of his tattered reputation. Then Trump releases the Hur recordings and Biden sounds like what we thought he was: a doddering, forgetful old man who had no business in the Oval Office. And then we get the news of his cancer diagnosis.

    While it’s definitely possible this aggressive cancer just recently happened, the context argues for what’s likely. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer years ago, his craven acolytes hid it from the American people out of a desire to maintain and sustain political power, and knowledge of it was only released out of a cynical and desperate attempt to divert attention from the revelations to come by currying sympathy for a pathetic old man with a dread disease that will probably kill him, and soon.

    His personal doctor needs to be called in front of Congress, and the American people at least need his PSA scores since he was President. The only trust can come from verification at this point.

  35. Neo:
    As I understand it, the Decipher test in the article you mentioned does not predict the susceptibility of a particular prostate cancer to hormone therapy but rather suggests when the addition of hormone therapy to radiation or other primary treatments is advisable.

    “Although the study wasn’t designed to detect a relationship between Decipher scores and how well hormone therapy worked, Dr. McGuire noted, the results did suggest that hormone therapy helped people with high and intermediate scores live longer. Hormone therapy also helped people with low scores live longer, but the improvement was minimal compared with what was seen in people with higher scores.”

  36. A professor put it this way: “There are two types of men, those who have prostate cancer, and those who will have prostate cancer.” Such encouraging news, it was.

    I’ve heard there’s an old doctor quote about predicting the probability a patient has prostate cancer. It pretty much goes like this
    Does the person have a prostate, if not it’s 0.
    If the person has a prostate then ask him his age in years. Yeah, that’s pretty much the probability he has prostate cancer.

  37. …Crises were all over the place….

    To be sure, creating an overwhelming slew of CRISES was/is the WHOLE point of the “Biden” administration—this to distract one from all the CRISES(!)…and lead to the NECESSITY of effecting the Cloward-Piven scheme of tearing down and then recreating the country…in the desired fashion…IOW TRANSFORMATION.

    This continues to be Democratic Party policy…so that if anyone gets in the way or otherwise tries to solve any of the myriad problems created and/or exacerbated by “Biden”** then that person MUST be opposed, slandered, vilified, demonized—destroyed—by any and all means necessary.

    After all, the country’s destruction MUST be allowed to proceed apace.

    File under: A crisis of crises.

    ** Not to mention, endanger any of the Democratic Party’s uber-lucrative slush funds…

  38. On the campaign trail Biden promised the cure cancer. I guess that didn’t pan out.

  39. Prostate cancer death rates are about twice that of breast cancer in women, but you rarely, if ever, see prostate cancer ribbons and calls for more research funding for prostate cancer.

  40. That is sad about Scott Adams, hope the best for him.
    Other than possible recent discovery on Sundowner, it’s possible it was found and being treated but a losing cause?

  41. Prostate cancer death rates are about twice that of breast cancer in women, but you rarely, if ever, see prostate cancer ribbons and calls for more research funding for prostate cancer.
    ==
    In this country, there are about 42,000 deaths annually from breast cancer as we speak and 35,700 from prostate cancer. The ratio of deaths to new diagnoses is about the same for both. See 2025 Cancer Facts & Figures

  42. Askepias; Art Deco:

    I wrote this post in 2013 comparing breast cancer statistics to prostate cancer statistics. Please take a look. The gist of it is that the demographics in terms of age are very very different and breast cancer kills a lot more young people. Here’s a quote [the figures are the ones available in 2013, when I wrote the post]:

    Take a look at the statistics and you’ll see the magnitude of the differences I’m talking about. Here are the figures for prostate cancer:

    From 2006-2010, the median age at death for cancer of the prostate was 80 years of age. Approximately 0.0% died under age 20; 0.0% between 20 and 34; 0.1% between 35 and 44; 1.6% between 45 and 54; 8.3% between 55 and 64; 20.0% between 65 and 74; 37.6% between 75 and 84; and 32.5% 85+ years of age.

    The age-adjusted death rate was 23.0 per 100,000 men per year.

    And here are the figures for breast cancer:

    From 2006-2010, the median age at death for cancer of the breast was 68 years of age. Approximately 0.0% died under age 20; 0.9% between 20 and 34; 5.3% between 35 and 44; 14.6% between 45 and 54; 21.6% between 55 and 64; 20.2% between 65 and 74; 21.5% between 75 and 84; and 15.9% 85+ years of age.

    The age-adjusted death rate was 22.6 per 100,000 women per year.

  43. Neo,

    I wonder how much those stats have changed since 2013. A lot has happened since then. In particular genetic mapping of the cancer with targeted therapy. My urological oncologist/ surgeon and I discussed this opition. His argument is that at present the cure rate is 25%, where for my case a cystectomy can be in the 90s. He did say that even that 25 percentage is a big jump and the therapy is looking like a “game changer”.

  44. Prostate cancer has a curious affinity for bone. And metastases are the result of (undetectable} microscopic cell spread early in the course of the disease.

    physicsguy writes, “where for my case a cystectomy can be [curative, I presume he means] in the 90s.” Cystectomy is for cancer of the bladder, and a partial one is much easier to live with than a total cystectomy, which requires a neo-bladder be constructed out of a segment of small bowel. Total cystectomy is done for (not-infrequent) multifocal simultaneous cancers of the bladder, which arise since urine washes the entire bladder surface with carcinogen(s). A 90 % cure rate for bladder cancer is a rather optimistic figure.
    If I had to choose, I’d go for prostate over bladder. And at my age, there is an 80% probability I do have it.

  45. physicsguy:

    Yes, I think the death rates have gone down.

    But I cited those figures anyway to make a point about relative ages at death between breast cancer and prostate cancer. I don’t think that’s changed.

  46. “A 90 % cure rate for bladder cancer is a rather optimistic figure.”

    Well, Cicero, you just made my day. I guess I should check myself into hospice soon.

  47. Curious to know whether anyone has any experience with ingesting significant amounts of chili peppers.

    I’ve been munching on a variety of them for years now, though habaneros (my preference) are not all that conducive to munching.
    Still, one does what one can…

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