The prostate cancer of former American president Joe Bid was diagnosed last week, said his spokesman on Tuesday, May 20, ensuring that his latest dedicated blood detection dates back to more than ten years.
This clarification occurs at a time when current President Donald Trump and his allies feed doubts about a possible concealment of the health problems of the former Democratic president.
“I am surprised that the public has not been informed a long time ago” of this cancer, the Republican said on Monday to the journalists, emphasizing that “it took a long time to arrive (…) in a stadium 9”.
“What I want to know is how Dr. Jill Biden was able to lose a metastatic cancer of stadium five or is it a new concealment?” He also launched his son Donald Trump JR in X.
Blood detection in 2014
“The last PSA test of the 2014 Biden dates. Before Friday, President Biden had never been diagnosed with prostate cancer,” said Joe Biden spokesman in a statement.
Joe Biden’s services announced on Sunday that the former 82 -year -old president was diagnosed with a “aggressive” form of prostate cancer with “bone metastases” on Sunday. This cancer is level 9 in the Gleason score, which evaluates the levels of aggressiveness of prostate cancer on a scale of up to 10.
Prostate cancer, a gland located near the bladder, is the most common in men and is the second cause of cancer death for them.
To detect it, a blood analysis called PSA doses can be practiced, which consists of measuring the blood speed of a specific prostate antigen, or a rectal touch can be practiced. But due to their defects, these exams are not universally indicated.
Risk of false positive
In the United States, CDCs do not recommend the PSA test, the country’s main health agency in men of 70 years or more and not with disease symptoms, including the risk of positive and non -needal false treatments.
Joe Biden was between 71 and 72 in 2014, when he had his last PSA test, according to his spokesman. Their services did not specify if since then he had carried out other exams linked to the prostate.
A note from the White House doctor, published after Donald Trump’s annual physical exam in April, indicated a normal PSA rate, while Joe Biden’s doctor did not include these data in the medical reports he published, Note Associated Press.
Source: BFM TV
