The office of former President Joe Biden said Sunday that Biden, 82, had been diagnosed with late-stage prostate cancer last week, but doctors are suggesting that, given the progression of the disease, Biden and his doctors likely knew of the diagnosis for years before now.
Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, an oncologist who served in President Obama’s administration and joined Biden’s administration as a COVID-19 advisor, said Biden likely had prostate cancer at the start of his presidency in 2021.
“This is not speculation. If you have prostate cancer that has spread to the bone, then he most certainly—you were saying—had it when he was president of the United States,” MSNBC host Joe Scarborough asked Emanuel in an interview Monday.
“Oh yeah. He did not develop it in the last 100, 200 days,” the oncologist replied. “He had it while he was president. He probably…
