Overview
- Citing a BBC interview reported Saturday, Hunter Biden said the prostate cancer Joe Biden announced last year has spread to his bones and other parts of the body and is “very painful” and “very debilitating.”
- Joe Biden publicly confirmed an aggressive prostate cancer with bone metastasis in May of last year and has been receiving treatment since leaving the presidency.
- Family and news reports say the disease is now affecting Biden’s mobility and daily functioning even as he keeps a limited public schedule that included a June appearance at the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago.
- Hunter Biden said he is grateful for the pardon his father granted him but acknowledged the decision hurt Joe Biden’s legacy, a line of reporting that links recent health disclosures to broader questions about how the president’s team managed medical information.
- Reporters note that the new details come from family interviews rather than independent medical releases, and the family says Biden plans a memoir after the November midterm elections, a timing that may shape public discussion of his final months in office.