Former President Joe Biden "suddenly" being diagnosed with "aggressive" metastatic cancer spreading from the prostate to the bone is so shocking it is unbelievable, according to renowned prostate cancer surgeon Dr. David Samadi on Newsmax.
"It's very odd to see someone being great a year ago and completely normal with no rise of PSA, no problem, and all of a sudden, within a year, they would have prostate cancer, Gleason-9 with metastasism," Samadi, a New York City-based, board-certified urologist and robotic surgeon specializing in prostate, kidney, and bladder cancer, told Monday's "Wake Up America," referring to industry-standard prostate specific antigen (PSA) testing.
"So something doesn't make any sense. We need to look at these PSA for the last 10 years or so.
"And I hope this was not missed, or there's more to the story than what it seems like."
Samadi shared the skepticism that Biden was unaware he had cancer for years, because it could be a death sentence.
"It's unfortunate that he has metastasis to bone; this is a poor prognosis; it's a very aggressive cancer; and at this point, surgery and radiation are not good options," Samadi said, noting the next line of care is "not curable" hormonal treatment that would merely "slow down the progression of the disease."
The news raises the questions about how a former president is suddenly fighting for his life from prostate cancer, which has been detectable and treatable for millions of everyday Americans.
"The bigger question that's coming up is how is it that a president of the United States, being covered with so many doctors and going through very aggressive screening in 2025, shows up with a Gleason-9 with metastases?" Samadi asked.
"And that's very difficult to answer because we don't see this in America like this, especially people like President Biden and many others that are on very extreme surveillance and screening and other things."
Samadi's practice has had past presidents under care.
"No, it usually doesn't happen all of a sudden in one year," he said. "This is a kind of disease that, you know, you surveil and you follow the PSA.
"I have a few presidents in my practice that have been taken care of for many years. It's not only one doctor is in charge, there's a group of doctors that are all over these kind of like politicians. And you look at the growth of the PSA and the rise of the PSA, and you get digital rectal exam.
"Digital rectal exam detects about 15% of prostate cancers are detected. But if you feel a nodule or firmness, which in President Biden's case that's the way they detected it, and that's the information that we have, then they go through biopsy, and they find out that they have cancer."
Samadi estimates Biden might have had detectable cancer for "5-7 years."
"When someone is diagnosed with Gleason-9, it takes about 5-7 years to metastasize and probably on the average about five years or so to survive," he concluded.
"So again, you know, nobody knows how long, and we wish the president well, but nobody knows how long he's going to respond to these medications.
"But typically after a few years, they become insensitive to these hormones, and the outcome is not so good. Unfortunately, the prognosis is poor."
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Eric Mack ✉
Eric Mack has been a writer and editor at Newsmax since 2016. He is a 1998 Syracuse University journalism graduate and a New York Press Association award-winning writer.
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