Biden’s Sudden Cancer Diagnosis Just Doesn’t Add Up, Doctors Say
Former President Joe Biden likely had prostate cancer the entire time he was President, doctors and cancer experts told the Daily Caller.
Former President Joe Biden likely had prostate cancer the entire time he was President, doctors and cancer experts told the Daily Caller.
The 46th POTUS received a diagnosis of an “aggressive” form of prostate cancer Friday which spread to his bones, Biden’s personal office announced Sunday.
Doctors who spoke to the Daily Caller indicated that metastastization from prostate cancer to the bones typically takes at least five years.
“It’s not credible that we are hearing of his metastatic disease for the first time because he was having difficulty urinating and they found it. That just doesn’t track,” Dr. Steven Quay, a physician, scientist and member of the American Association for Cancer Research, told the Caller.
Doctors apparently found the initial cancer, a nodule on his prostate, in mid-May after Biden was having trouble urinating, Biden’s office said in their statement.
“If you’re diagnosed because of symptoms with prostate cancer, that means it’s already advanced,” Republican North Carolina Rep. Greg Murphy, who is also a board-certified urologist, told the Caller.
“Nodules don’t pop up in four months,” Murphy said. “And cancer generally does not appear de novo out of four months also. So it begs the question: was he screened for this or not?”
Of the three public medical reports that Biden’s personal doctor Kevin O’Connor released, none mentioned screenings for prostate cancer. (RELATED: Biden Says Doctors Could Persuade Him To Drop Out If ‘Medical Condition’ Emerges)
Prostate cancer is typically diagnosed through a combination of a rectal examination and a Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) test, Murphy explained.
In 2018, the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force (USPSTF) changed its recommendation on PSAs, recommending against PSAs for men over aged 70.
Murphy condemned this change as wrong and criticized the USPSTF for not including any urologists in their decision, arguing that conducting a PSA should still be considered part of the highest standard of care.
“Normally 80 year old men are not screened for prostate cancer, but someone running for the highest position in the world, I would submit, should have been screened for it or at least looked into,” he told the Caller.
Dr. Quay concurred with Murphy’s assessment on PSAs. (RELATED: President Trump, Melania Issue Statement On Joe Biden’s Cancer Diagnosis)
“The highest standard of care is this simple blood test where you can measure PSA. So whether you act on it is a separate decision, but not taking it, it would be malpractice,” he told the Caller.
Quay considered it highly unlikely that Biden was not receiving PSA tests. He also told the Caller that, if Biden had been getting PSAs, it was also unlikely that his levels were normal at any point in the past 5 years.
“It’s literally in the single digit and probably under 5% percent probability that he has had normal PSAs for the last five to six years and then now has metastatic disease. Yes, it happens.
It’s 1% 2% 3%. We have to believe that they’ve known his PSA was creeping up.”
Biden’s office noted in their statement that the cancer “appears to be” responsive to hormones, a detail Murphy also said likely means his diagnosis came at least a month earlier than the statement claims.
“It’s been said Biden’s prostate cancer is ‘hormone sensitive’, it takes at least 5 weeks to figure this out with a medicine called Firmagon. So his original diagnosis was at the latest about 6 weeks ago,” Murphy wrote in a Monday morning X post.
Murphy also told the Caller that the diagnosis is completely separate from the questions that surrounded Biden’s presidency about his cognitive fitness and any actions taken by those around him in response. He wanted to steer clear of speculation but did acknowledge that there were questions.
“I don’t want this to be going in the realm that there’s been also a huge cover up from but that’s what the atmosphere is going on right now. You just have to wonder how many people were complicit in hiding some of the things that happened with President Biden.
I think that’s kind of aside from this diagnosis, but still,” Murphy said.
The media and the American public have been hyper-focused on the transparency and forthcomingness of Biden’s administration and those closest to him following the release of Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s book “Original Sin,” which details numerous private concerns from those around Biden about his health.
One such person who expressed concerns, the book alleges, was Dr. O’Connor, Biden’s personal doctor who publicly said that Biden was “fit to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency.”
Privately, O’Connor worried about Biden, pushing for him to get more rest, even floating the idea of putting him in a wheelchair, according to Thompson and Tapper.
Other doctors took to the airwaves Monday morning, many of them concurring with Murphy and Quay.
“Oh, he’s had this for many years,” Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, a breast oncologist, told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
Murphy wanted Biden’s diagnosis to be a call to action for the USPSTF to change their PSA recommendation.
“I’m a very big advocate for screening for prostate cancer.
It has made the difference in millions of men’s lives and I think it’s unfortunate. I think I’m really using this as kind of a call to action for men to make sure they get both a PSA and or rectal examination,” Murphy concluded.
Despite the advanced stage, Quay said there’s still hope for Biden’s prognosis.
“We are in a golden age of medicine,” Quay told the Caller.
“It used to be, you might try to radiate a little bit, but then you would handle pain and it really wasn’t a pretty picture. We have a completely different situation now,” he continued.
“He’s going to go on some drugs that will have, you know, a few side effects, hot flashes, maybe some weight gain, some weakness and that sort of thing. But he will get two to three years of essentially no cancer advancement, which is cool at his age.”
