Biden, 82, was diagnosed on Friday after doctors discovered a nodule on his prostate, his office said in a statement released on Sunday. The statement added that the cancer had “a Gleason score of nine (Grade Group 5)” on a scale that goes up to 10, signifying that Biden’s cancer is highly aggressive.

On May 18, Joe Biden's office shared that the former president had been diagnosed with prostate cancer. The eighty-two-year-old had previously undergone treatment for non-melanoma skin cancers, including the removal of a basal cell carcinoma from his chest in 2023.