Former President Joe Biden is beginning radiation and hormone therapy to treat an aggressive form of prostate cancer, his office confirmed Saturday.
“As part of a treatment plan for prostate cancer, President Biden is currently undergoing radiation therapy and hormone treatment,” a spokesperson for the former president said, according to reporting from NBC News.
The radiation treatment is expected to last five weeks and he has already begun taking a pill form of hormone medication.
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Biden, 82, first disclosed his cancer diagnosis in May, revealing that the disease had spread to his bones. The announcement followed a routine physical in which doctors found a small prostate nodule that required additional testing. His medical team later described the cancer as high-grade, with a Gleason Score of 9
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