Overview
- Jill Biden confirmed in interviews tied to her new memoir that Joe Biden’s prostate cancer is stage four and has spread to his bones, and she said he will have to live with the disease long term.
- She said Biden first showed urinary symptoms while in office and that testing after the couple left the White House led to a diagnosis that he announced publicly in May 2025.
- Biden completed about five weeks of radiation that required frequent trips from their Delaware home to Philadelphia and now takes ongoing medications to control metastatic disease.
- Jill Biden says she is the primary caregiver who manages his appointments, medications and meals, and she described him as keeping a reduced public schedule but ‘‘slowed down.’'
- News outlets report these memoir disclosures in similar terms while noting the coverage fuels renewed questions about medical transparency for presidents and could shape political discussion going forward.