Biden's cancer prognosis clouded by questions: Urologist

(NewsNation) — Several antithetic factors could find what benignant of semipermanent prognosis erstwhile President Joe Biden faces aft being diagnosed with an "aggressive" signifier of prostate cancer, including his wide wellness and his wide beingness expectancy.

Dr. Justin Dubin, a urologist with Memorial Healthcare System, told NewsNation galore large advances person been made successful caller years successful treating prostate cancer. Dubin said that determining precisely what benignant of aboriginal Biden faces moving guardant remains challenging astatine this point. There is crushed for hope, helium said.

“People tin proceed to unrecorded long, satisfying lives adjacent with metastatic prostate cancer,” Dubin said.

The American Urological Association recommends that men acquisition prostate crab screening betwixt the ages of 45 and 70, Dubin said. However, Dubin said that considering Biden’s high-profile status, it is hard to cognize what guidelines were followed and what conversations were had astir his health.

Dubin said excessively galore unknowns are contiguous arsenic of present to cognize whether Biden’s information was known agelong earlier it was publically announced. Dubin said that successful general, a play of 5 to 10 years is needed for prostate crab to scope the bones.

“Is it retired of the question that they could person recovered something? Maybe, who knows,” Dubin told NewsNation. “Could thing person been (found) earlier? We don’t know.”