Overview
- In a BBC Newsnight interview Friday, Hunter Biden said his father’s prostate cancer “has metastasized into his bones and further” and is causing severe pain and debilitation.
- Joe Biden was diagnosed in May 2025 with an aggressive, Gleason 9 prostate cancer that had already spread to bone and was described then as hormone-sensitive.
- The former president completed a course of radiation and has been on hormone therapy, treatments the family said were finished in late 2025 but require ongoing monitoring.
- Hunter’s remarks are a family-sourced update rather than a new formal medical report from Biden’s doctors, and the White House team has not published fresh clinical details or a revised prognosis.
- The emotional disclosure underscores the human toll on the Biden family and may heighten public questions about medical transparency and how Biden’s health intersects with his continued public appearances and memoir plans.