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Former President Biden expressed gratitude Monday greeting for the outpouring of support pursuing the quality of his prostate crab diagnosis implicit the weekend.
"Cancer touches america all. Like truthful galore of you, Jill and I person learned that we are strongest successful the breached places," Biden, 82, wrote Monday greeting successful a station connected the societal media level X, on with a photograph of him, erstwhile archetypal woman Jill Biden and their cat, Willow.
"Thank you for lifting america up with emotion and support."
A Biden spokesperson confirmed connected Sunday that the erstwhile president has an assertive signifier of prostate crab that was discovered Friday "after experiencing expanding urinary symptoms," adding that it has dispersed to his bones.
As quality of his crab diagnosis spread, Biden’s allies and rivals posted good wishes and tributes crossed societal media.
President Trump, who Biden bushed successful the 2020 election, wrote connected Truth Social: “Melania and I are saddened to perceive astir Joe Biden’s caller aesculapian diagnosis. We widen our warmest and champion wishes to Jill and the family, and we privation Joe a accelerated and palmy recovery.”
Former President Obama, whom Biden served arsenic vice president nether for 8 years, voiced confidence in Biden’s “trademark resoluteness and grace.”
“Nobody has done much to find breakthrough treatments for crab successful each its forms than Joe, and I americium definite helium volition combat this situation with his trademark resoluteness and grace,” Obama wrote successful a station connected X.
Biden, who spent decades successful elected bureau earlier helium near the White House successful January aft abruptly calling disconnected his reelection campaign, had recently begun to measurement backmost into the spotlight with high-profile interviews connected the BBC and ABC's "The View."
Meanwhile, a caller publication owed retired this week has thrust him back into the quality with questions astir his wellness portion helium was successful bureau and archetypal determination to tally for different term.
Biden's oldest son, Beau Biden, who the erstwhile president hoped would 1 time beryllium elected to the White House, died astatine 46 a decennary agone from glioblastoma, an assertive signifier of encephalon cancer.
Updated astatine 8:25 a.m. EDT
