Biden Taken To Hospital After Nodule Found On His Prostate
Former President Joe Biden was taken to the hospital for evaluation after doctors discovered something on his prostate that they did not like during an exam.
“In a routine physical exam, a small nodule was found in the prostate, which necessitated further evaluation,” a spokesperson for the former president said, The New York Times reported.
This type of discovery is common for a man of President Biden’s age, 82, and may, or may not, be cause for concern, CBS reported.
“Prostate cancer may present as a prostate nodule (hard feeling area on the prostate) or elevated PSA test, and often results in ordering an MRI and prostate biopsy,” Dr. Herbert Lepor, urologist at NYU Langone, said.
The Centers for Disease Control says that the risk for prostate cancer increases as a man’s age increases.
“All men are at risk for prostate cancer. Out of every 100 American men, about 13 will get prostate cancer during their lifetime, and about 2 to 3 men will die from prostate cancer,” the CDC said on its website.
“The most common risk factor is age. The older a man is, the greater the chance of getting prostate cancer,” the CDC said. “Some men are at increased risk for prostate cancer. You are at increased risk for getting or dying from prostate cancer if you are African American or have a family history of prostate cancer.”
This week, the former president appeared on the ABC talk show “The View,” where he said that a new book that says people close to him were concerned about his cognitive health during his final years in the White House was incorrect.
“They are wrong,” he said. “There’s nothing to sustain that.”
CNN anchor Jake Tapper, one of the authors of the book titled “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, It’s Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,” spoke to his colleague Sara Sidner about what he and his coauthor, Alex Thompson, found when researching.
“White House physician, Dr. Kevin O’Conner, was telling White House aides that President Biden’s deterioration of his spine — the degeneration — was so significant that if he fell one more time that he might have to be in a wheelchair and serve in a wheelchair for his second term. But everybody pushed off the notion that he’d used a wheelchair until after the election,” he said on CNN.
“This is all part of a larger whole where the Biden White House tried to hide the extent of his deterioration, both physical and cognitive, as much as possible. In fact, as you — we all know and we all saw as his shuffling gait got worse and worse from 2003 to 2004, they started putting aides around him as he walked to Marine One, the helicopter. That was to kind of hide from public view how bad his gait was and how bad his walking was — his shuffling — and also in case he stumbled again to make sure somebody was there. And this is just of a piece of an overall campaign to try to conceal from the American people the extent to which the president was really struggling to do his job,” the anchor said.
“Alex Thompson and I were on the case, as were lots of other reporters, trying to figure out what was going on behind the scenes. But the bottom line is the White House was lying not only to the press, not only to the public, but they were lying to members of their own cabinet. They were lying to White House staffers. They were lying to Democratic members of Congress, to donors about how bad things had gotten,” he said.
