Biden likely knew he had cancer for a long time: Urologist

While erstwhile President Joe Biden's prostate crab diagnosis may person been a daze to the world, helium could person known for immoderate time.

According to urologist Dr. David Shusterman, that could so beryllium the case.

"It's precise improbable that idiosyncratic could get yearly checkups and not announcement a PSA elevation implicit the past, you know, but this is what I typically would spot successful a VA hospital, wherever a diligent hasn't had aesculapian attraction successful 10 years presents to an exigency country with bony pain, and past they find that it's metastatic prostate cancer," Shusterman said.

"Usually, it takes from the archetypal diagnosis of prostate crab to dispersed would instrumentality 5 to 10 years, adjacent successful the astir assertive form," helium added.

In a connection released connected Sunday afternoon, Biden's bureau confirmed helium was diagnosed with prostate cancer with metastasis to the bone.

"In the modern property of medicine, particularly the information that helium was a erstwhile president, helium had intensive state-of-the-art care..." Shusterman added.

"I mean, it's precise antithetic to perceive that idiosyncratic has prostate cancer, wherever they're annually being followed up, and the information that we conscionable find it astatine a Gleason 9 is conscionable beauteous overmuch unheard of successful this time and property of medicine."