{"id":28007,"date":"2025-05-19T02:40:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T02:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=28007"},"modified":"2025-05-19T03:25:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T03:25:56","slug":"what-a-prostate-cancer-diagnosis-like-bidens-means-for-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=28007","title":{"rendered":"What a Prostate Cancer Diagnosis Like Biden\u2019s Means for Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"
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While prognoses for prostate cancer patients were once measured in months, experts say that advances in treatment and diagnosis now improve survival by years.<\/p>\n

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Prostate cancer experts say that former President Joseph R. Biden\u2019s diagnosis is serious<\/a>. Announced on Sunday by his office, the cancer has spread to his bones. And it is Stage 4, the most deadly of stages for the illness. It cannot be cured.<\/p>\n

But the good news, prostate cancer specialists said, is that recent advances in diagnosing and treating prostate cancer \u2014 based in large part on research sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and the Defense Department \u2014 have changed what was once an exceedingly grim picture for men with advanced disease.<\/p>\n

\u201cLife is measured in years now, not months,\u201d said Dr. Daniel W. Lin, a prostate cancer specialist at the University of Washington.<\/p>\n

Dr. Judd Moul, a prostate cancer expert at Duke University, said that men whose prostate cancer has spread to their bones, \u201ccan live 5, 7, 10 or more years\u201d with current treatments. A man like Mr. Biden, in his 80s, \u201ccould hopefully pass away from natural causes and not from prostate cancer,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr. Biden\u2019s office said the former president had urinary symptoms, which led him to seek medical attention.<\/p>\n

But, Dr. Lin said, \u201cI highly doubt his symptoms were due to cancer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Instead, he said, the most likely scenario is that a doctor did an exam, noticed a nodule<\/a> on Mr. Biden\u2019s prostate and did a blood test, the prostate-specific antigen test. The PSA test looks for a protein released by cancer cells, and can be followed up by an M.R.I. The blood test and the M.R.I. would have pointed to the cancer.<\/p>\n

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While prognoses for prostate cancer patients were once measured in months, experts say that advances in treatment and diagnosis now improve survival by years.Prostate cancer experts say that former President Joseph R. Biden\u2019s diagnosis is serious. Announced on Sunday by his office, the cancer has spread to his bones. And it is Stage 4, the most deadly of stages for the illness. It cannot be cured.But the good news, prostate cancer specialists said, is that recent advances in diagnosing and treating prostate cancer \u2014 based in large part on research sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and the Defense Department \u2014 have changed what was once an exceedingly grim picture for men with advanced disease.\u201cLife is measured in years now, not months,\u201d said Dr. Daniel W. Lin, a prostate cancer specialist at the University of Washington.Dr. Judd Moul, a prostate cancer expert at Duke University, said that men whose prostate cancer has spread to their bones, \u201ccan live 5, 7, 10 or more years\u201d with current treatments. A man like Mr. Biden, in his 80s, \u201ccould hopefully pass away from natural causes and not from prostate cancer,\u201d he said.Mr. Biden\u2019s office said the former president had urinary symptoms, which led him to seek medical attention.But, Dr. Lin said, \u201cI highly doubt his symptoms were due to cancer.\u201dInstead, he said, the most likely scenario is that a doctor did an exam, noticed a nodule on Mr. Biden\u2019s prostate and did a blood test, the prostate-specific antigen test. The PSA test looks for a protein released by cancer cells, and can be followed up by an M.R.I. The blood test and the M.R.I. would have pointed to the cancer.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28009,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28007"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28010,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28007\/revisions\/28010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}