WASHINGTON: Joe Biden expressed his gratitude to People on Monday (Could 19) for his or her “love and help” after the previous US president said he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer.
The weekend announcement that the 82-year-old had been identified with an “aggressive” type of prostate most cancers, and that it had unfold to his bones, sparked an outpouring of excellent needs, together with from political rival President Donald Trump, Biden’s vice chairman Kamala Harris and peculiar People.
“Most cancers touches us all. Like so a lot of you, Jill and I’ve realized that we’re strongest within the damaged locations,” Biden, whose son Beau died of most cancers in 2015, posted on X with {a photograph} of him and his spouse.
“Thanks for lifting us up with love and help,” he mentioned.
Biden was identified with the illness on Friday after he skilled urinary signs and a prostate nodule was discovered, a press release from his workplace mentioned.
“Whereas this represents a extra aggressive type of the illness, the most cancers seems to be hormone-sensitive, which permits for efficient administration. The President and his household are reviewing therapy choices together with his physicians,” it added.