President Donald Trump expressed sympathy for his predecessor’s cancer diagnosis and surprise that the diagnosis was so recently revealed.
Former President Joe Biden’s office announced Sunday that Biden has an “aggressive form” of prostate cancer. The statement said that Biden received the diagnosis on Friday.
“I think it’s very sad, actually. I’m surprised that the public wasn’t notified a long time ago because to get to stage 9, that’s a long time,” Trump told reporters on Monday afternoon.
Biden’s cancer is stage four, but he received a Gleason score of nine, Grade Group 5. A Gleason score is a metric for grading prostate cancer. Higher scores, such as a nine or 10, suggest a much more aggressive, faster-spreading form of cancer.
“I just had my physical. You saw that, you saw the results of that particular test. I think that test is standard to pretty much…
