Former President Joe Biden’s cancer diagnosis was shocking, but one doctor suggests that it shouldn’t come as a surprise at all.
Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, an oncologist who served under the Obama and Biden administrations and is currently a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, revealed that the former president’s diagnosis was actually years in the making.
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The “aggressive” form of prostate cancer that Biden has been diagnosed with has been around for years and should have been caught way sooner, Dr. Emanuel told MSNBC’s Morning Joe panel.
“You would say that very few people have actually had it diagnosed at this late stage. That’s rare. Doesn’t it take some time for prostate cancer to develop to a point where it would spread to the bone?” host Joe Scarborough asked.
“Oh, he’s had this for many years, maybe even a decade, growing there and spreading. That’s right. It’s a little surprising. I looked back at the records and there’s no evidence that when he got his health status and the medical records were released, that he had a prostate-specific antigen,” the oncologist replied.
“Now, it is true that a lot of people recommend not doing a prostate-specific antigen after 70, but President Biden’s been in public life a very long time,” he continued. “He was vice president and had a lot of exams under 70. So it’s a little surprising that they didn’t do it. And maybe President Biden decided he didn’t want the test. Many men do decide they don’t want the PSA, but this is also aggressive.”
“When we talk about the aggressive part, what we mean is that the Gleason score, that score is from two up to ten. And he’s a nine. And that means that the cancer doesn’t look normal, it looks very abnormal, which is probably why it’s in the bone. And as you point out, Joe, it’s been around for a very long time in President Biden – years.”
“Exactly how many?” a stunned Scarborough asked.
We don’t know, obviously. And it is a little surprising to many of us oncologists that he wasn’t diagnosed earlier.”
He went on to state that it was also a “little surprising” that the doctor didn’t take the test, suggesting it could also be the result of doctors not being straightforward with the American people.
“I don’t know what President Biden and his doctor discussed, but I think you are hinting at the other element, which is that President Obama had this test, President Bush had this test. It is a little surprising that the doctor didn’t take it. And if he took it and didn’t report it and it was elevated, that is another case of doctors not being straightforward with us. We’ve had several of them with President Trump, especially around his COVID diagnosis. And if that is true, that would be very troubling,” he said grimly.
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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