Former President Joe Biden says that radiation treatment for his prostate cancer “worked as expected,” weeks after his son Hunter admitted that the disease had spread to the bones and was causing him “debilitating” pain.
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“I am deeply grateful to the doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals who helped control my cancer and continue to take such good care of me. Their skill, dedication, and compassion mean a lot,” Biden said Tuesday on his X account.
“Last fall’s radiation treatment worked as expected, and I continue to focus on the things that matter to me, like finishing my memoirs,” he added.
The 83-year-old former Democratic leader issued the statement on the occasion of Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, which is observed in September.
“This year, it is more personal for me,” Biden wrote, noting that “more than 330,000 American men will hear the same words this year that we heard last spring when I was diagnosed with prostate cancer. By the time we detected it, it had already spread to the bones.”
These are his first comments about his own health since Hunter Biden told the BBC last month that the cancer had “metastasized to the bones and beyond,” and that it was “very painful” and “very debilitating in many ways,” according to the Daily Mail.
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Hunter said he wished his father “complained more, because the situation is not good.”
Biden’s office revealed in May 2025—less than four months after he left the White House—that he had been diagnosed with an “aggressive” form of prostate cancer.
He underwent skin cancer surgery last September and, the following month, began radiation and hormone therapy treatments for prostate cancer.
Jill Biden told NBC in June that her husband will live with cancer for the rest of his life. “I think if he had simply been diagnosed with prostate cancer, it would be a different thing, because that can be cured; but the fact that it has metastasized to the bones completely changes the situation,” she said that month.
“So I think Joe will live with cancer for the rest of his life,” she added.
