“Joe is a fighter.”

Former Democratic President Joe Biden will fight “with the determination that characterizes him” against his prostate cancer, he assured Barack Obama on Sunday, May 18, shortly after the announcement of the “aggressive” disease of his former second.

“No one has done only Joe to find decisive treatments against cancer in all its forms, and I am sure that this challenge will assume with the determination and elegance that characterize it,” he wrote in X Barack Obama, a tenant of the White House from 2009 to 2017 with Joe Biden as vice president.

“We pray for a quick and complete healing,” he added.

Joe Biden had been operated in 2023 of a “small” injury in the chest, which had proven cancerous. During his mandate, he launched an important research and financing initiative “to cure cancers once and for all” with the aim of reducing mortality related to this disease by 50% in 25 years.

Level 9 Cancer

The former US president was diagnosed on Friday, May 16 on Friday. According to a press release sent by his office on Sunday night, his cancer is level 9 at the Gleason score, which evaluates the levels of aggressiveness of prostate cancer on a scale of up to 10.

“Although it is a more aggressive way of the disease, cancer seems to be sensitive to hormones, allowing effective management,” said the press release.

The former American vice president Kamala Harris, for whom Joe Bid was withdrawn from the presidential career also testified his support in her allied ally. “Joe is a fighter, and I know he will face this challenge with the same strength, resistance and optimism that has always defined his life and leadership,” he wrote in X.

Prostate cancer is the most common in men and represents 15% of all male cancers. The prostate is a male gland whose main function is to produce a liquid that enters the sperm composition.

Joe Biden left the White House in January after giving up last summer to imagine, in a context of concerns about his state of health. A research book must also appear on Tuesday, revealing for the slow and cognitive decline in its slow and cognitive decline during its mandate.