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Joe Biden’s Prostate Cancer Diagnosis: The Outlook for Advanced Disease

Around 37% of patients diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer are alive after five years, according to the American Cancer Society

Joe Biden is likely to fight prostate cancer for the remainder of his life, specialists say.
Joe Biden is likely to fight prostate cancer for the remainder of his life, specialists say. Photo: Nathan Howard/Reuters

Former President Joe Biden’s prostate-cancer diagnosis is one of the most aggressive forms of the disease and usually isn’t curable. He could still live for years, according to cancer doctors.

Biden, age 82, was diagnosed Friday with an aggressive, late-stage prostate cancer that has spread to his bones, his representatives said Sunday. Biden is likely to fight prostate cancer for the remainder of his life, specialists said. 

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