America’s leading experts have been weighing in on the news that former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with an “aggressive” form of prostate cancer.
The news has led to allegations of a “cover-up” due to the cancer’s advanced stage so soon after Biden left the White House.
His cancer was given a Gleason score of 9 and a Grade Group of 5, a devastating stage of the rapidly spreading disease.
The diagnosis came days after doctors found a “small nodule” on his prostate during a routine health exam.
However, several doctors have argued that it’s “inconceivable” for Biden to have such an advanced form of cancer that wasn’t spotted during his presidency.
First Son Donald Trump Jr. accused Biden’s team of a “cover-up.”
Trump Jr. shared a screengrab of a post from physician Dr. Steven Quay.
Quay called prostate cancer “the easiest cancer to diagnose when it first starts and to watch it progress to bone metastases.”
Some of America’s top doctors also questioned how a former president could be diagnosed with a late-stage of prostate cancer.
As many have noted, prostate cancer can be detected early with routine bloodwork recommended for all men over the age of 50.
In a post on X, Dr. Howie Forman, a professor of radiology and biomedical imaging, public health management, and economics at Yale, wrote:
“It is inconceivable that this was not being followed before he left the Presidency.”
It is inconceivable that this was not being followed before he left the Presidency. Gleason grade 9 would have had an elevated PSA level for some time before this diagnosis. And he must have had a PSA test numerous times before. This is odd.
I wish him well and hope he has an… https://t.co/SKPETi0E7l
— (((Howard Forman))) (@thehowie) May 18, 2025
He noted that the test for prostate-specific antigen would have shown he had cancer “for some time before this diagnosis,” given how aggressive it is.
In February 2024, when Biden was the presumptive Democrat nominee, his longtime physician, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, deemed him “fit to serve.”
O’Connor provided the assessment following a routine physical at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
Yale radiologist Dr. Forman noted that Biden “must have had a PSA test numerous times before.”
He concluded that Biden’s late-stage diagnosis is “odd.”
In a follow-up post, the doctor questioned whether Biden “really never had screening these past dozen years” or if he has always “had a normal PSA prior to [age] 70?”
“It’s just so odd to discover this with bone [metastasis] in a man of his stature and [with his] access to care,” Forman concluded.
Completely true. But do you believe that 1) he really never had screening these past dozen years and 2) he had a normal psa prior to 70? It’s just so odd to discover this with bone Mets in a man of his stature and access to care.
— (((Howard Forman))) (@thehowie) May 18, 2025
Fox News senior medical analyst Dr. Marc Siegel also seemed confused about how Biden’s diagnosis could suddenly emerge.
“This was found by physical examination by a prostate exam,” Siegel said Sunday night.
“A lot of times, we find an elevation in prostate-specific antigen, PSA, and then we go after it.”
Siegel noted that he tests all of his male patients over the age of 45 for the disease.
Once a test comes back for an increased PSA, Siegel said he automatically orders an MRI for the patient.
After an MRI, a decision is made about whether to conduct a biopsy.
But in Biden’s case, doctors only performed a biopsy once he claimed he was experiencing urinary issues.
Siegel said this is a sign that the cancer has already spread.
During the early stages of the disease, patients often do not experience any symptoms, he explained.
“I mean, he must have had the best possible care here,” the doctor said of the White House.
“I’m a little taken aback that it’s this far advanced.”
“It would be really surprising if they weren’t doing a very close screening on this because everybody knows in the medical community that this is the one cancer in men you really look out for,” Siegel continued.
He added that even though Biden “doesn’t seem to have a lot of risk factors” for the disease, he is 82 years old.
“So that’s a big risk factor,” Siegel noted.
Similarly, on News Nation, urologist Dr. David Shusterman said it is “unheard of” for someone with Biden’s stage of cancer to not know about it beforehand.
“It’s very unlikely that someone could get annual checkups and not notice,” he said.
Shusterman added that Biden is a former president who “had state-of-the-art care.”
“It’s unusual to hear that someone has prostate cancer when they’re annually being followed up,” Shusterman explained.
“The fact that we find it at a Gleason 9 is unheard of.”
He went on to assert that the former president “most likely had it for a long time,” noting the aggressive form has to spread over several years.
In the end, Shusterman concluded that there is “definitely evidence that he knew about this for a while.”
Dr. Steven Quay went even further.
In a post on X, Quay declared:
“It is highly likely he was carrying a diagnosis of prostate cancer throughout his White House tenure, and the American people were uninformed.”
He explained that prostate cancer is the “easiest… to diagnose when it first starts and to watch it progress to bone metastases.”
“For even with the most aggressive form, it is a five to seven year journey without treatment before it becomes metastatic,” Quay noted.
“Meaning it would be malpractice for this patient to show up and first be diagnosed with metastatic disease in May 2025.”
Quay’s comments were shared by Trump Jr., who questioned, “How did Dr. Jill Biden miss stage five metastatic cancer, or is this yet another coverup??”
What I want to know is how did Dr. Jill Biden miss stage five metastatic cancer or is this yet another coverup??? pic.twitter.com/fSqtDmcX4p
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) May 18, 2025
TikTokker JD Sharp replied to Trump Jr.’s post by claiming the Sunday announcement of Biden’s diagnosis “is an effort to push the fact that Biden was running the country as a vegetable under the rug.”
“Without question,” Trump Jr. wrote back.
Others also argued that the Biden administration may have covered up his cancer diagnosis, even as he ran for re-election.
In a post on X, conservative commentator Benny Johnson wrote:
“This is the most dangerous cover-up in the history of the presidency.”
Johnson pointed to the February 2024 note in which the former president’s doctor declared him “fit to serve.”
“Last summer, White House Physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor swore to the American people that Joe Biden was ‘completely fit for the presidency’ – no issues, nothing to see,” Johnson wrote.
“Advanced prostate cancer takes +10 years to develop to the stage where Biden’s diagnosis is.
“Prostate cancer is also *easy* to find…
“You’re telling me that the best doctors and testing on Earth did not *find* Biden’s cancer in all these years of testing?
“Was every medical report a lie? For how long?”
He then went on to assert that those in Biden’s White House “knew.”
“They lied. They hid it. For power,” Johnson said.
“People need to be held accountable for this.”
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