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Published 10:53 06 Aug 2026 GMT
Former first lady Dr. Jill Biden has opened up about the concerning symptoms former President Joe Biden experienced in the lead-up to his prostate cancer diagnosis.
On May 18, 2025, Biden's office announced that he had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer during a routine physical examination, with bone metastasis, and began treatment the same month. In October 2025, he was confirmed to be undergoing radiation and hormone therapies.
The former president's spokesperson confirmed on September 4, 2025, that he'd also undergone Mohs surgery to remove skin cancer lesions from his forehead, after previously having a basal-cell carcinoma removed from his chest in 2023.
During an appearance on Sirius XM's Let's Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa, Jill Biden revealed the warning signs of prostate cancer that her husband had experienced before the diagnosis.
She revealed that he'd been getting up "seven times a night", which she spoke to the White House physicians about at the time, but heard nothing more of it so "thought it was addressed."
She told Ripa: "But when it continued when we got out of the White House [in January 2025], I said, 'Joe, we’ve got to go up to Jeff in Philly — something’s wrong.'"
Joe, who is now 83, will "forever live with cancer", she confirmed, as it had already metastasized to his bones before it was found.
Jill explained: "We have to be mindful of it every three months, testing and medicine. And anybody who’s gone through this cancer journey - and I’ve been through it many times with members of my family, of course with Beau - it’s constant. It’s daily. And I think it’s challenging."
Beau Biden, Joe’s oldest son with his first wife, died of glioblastoma, a form of brain cancer, at the age of 46 in 2015.
Jill admitted in an interview with CBS Sunday Morning in May that it was "shocking" to discover that Joe had cancer after he'd undergone many exhaustive medical evaluations by White House doctors.
She added: "I do feel we had amazing care in the White House, but somehow that was missed."
She revealed that her husband's doctor told her that in accordance with the American Urological Association’s recommendations, men over 70 do not require routine blood tests to screen for prostate cancer because the disease is slow-growing.
She admitted: "I never, oh my God, I never thought it would be prostate cancer."
Despite the fact that he will never be fully cancer-free, Jill revealed that Joe is "doing okay" living with the condition after having had several treatments.
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