Former President Joe Biden’s last Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) blood test was done in 2014, while he was serving as vice president in the Obama administration, his office announced Tuesday.
The PSA blood test is one of the most common ways to screen for prostate cancer.
“Prior to Friday, President Biden had never been diagnosed with prostate cancer,” a spokesperson for the former president’s office said, addressing rumors that the 82-year-old had been quietly diagnosed while leading the executive branch.
The announcement on Sunday that Biden has an aggressive form of prostate cancer that has spread to the bone reportedly shocked both longtime members of the Democrat’s inner circle and doctors alike.
According to the New York Post, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, a family friend of the Bidens who served as his White House physician, did not mention a PSA test in his report on the former president’s February 2024 physical exam.
“I think the likely scenario, knowing Kevin O’Connor pretty well, is that they had a discussion on what a PSA test is, and they decided not to do one because it would likely be elevated and cause a story, since a lot of older men have high PSAs that are false positives,” a long-serving aide to Biden told the Post on Monday.
“A blood test has a paper trail,” the aide said. “They probably just didn’t do the test. I think it would leak if he had a PSA test they tried to bury.”
“What’s ironic is that if they didn’t give the president a PSA test because of the potential for optics of a possible false positive, that decision is ultimately going to lead to his death because they could have caught it earlier,” the person added.
Dr. Zeke Emanuel, an oncologist and bioethicist who helped draft the Affordable Care Act, told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Monday that Biden’s prostate cancer has been growing and spreading “for many years, maybe even a decade.”
“He did not develop it in the last 100 to 200 days,” Emanuel said. “He had it while he was president. He probably had it at the start of his presidency in 2021.”
In the case of any male U.S. president, there’s no reason NOT to do an annual or semiannual PSA. Monitoring those levels will quickly indicate if further testing is necessary and if immediate intervention should be considered. The test should not be an option for presidential physical exams, regardless of age.
I do not believe that, the sources lie all the time. He and a few others knew he had prostate cancer before the 2020 election. They thought he was their only shot at the white house so they pulled off a crooked election. You know the rest
BS, he was being screend and it was being ommitted from his reports, for obvious reasons. No other way to explain.