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Ex-president Joe Biden has “aggressive” prostate cancer with bone metastases, his personal team said on Sunday.
According to the press release, its cancer is level 9 on the classification of Gleason, the system most often used to determine the grade of prostate cancer. This scale goes up to 10.
Although this represents a more aggressive form of this disease, cancer seems to be hormon dependent, which allows effective management From the disease, however, specifies the staff of the 82-year-old ex-elected official.
The president and his family evaluate treatment options with his doctorswe add.
Hormon dependent cancer means that hormones have played a role in the proliferation of cancer cells. In the case of prostate, cancer needs androgens to spread. He stops growing when this male hormone is absent.
Joe Biden could therefore find himself under hormone therapy. This means that drugs are given that the body no longer produces, or almost more, male hormones. And that can lead cancer in remissionexplains Dr. Fred Saad at the end of the line, somits in terms of prostate cancer and holder of the Raymond Garneau pulpit.
At that age, cancer is frequent and that, the majority of time, is not very aggressive. But when there are metastases, you have to take that seriouslyadds this expert, also director of the University of Montreal surgery department.
Dr. Saad explains that life expectancy varies according to the extent of metastases and the patient’s response to treatments. It is not because we have metastases that we are sentenced to six months of life, he said. Fortunately, we have treatments that even work in the presence of metastases to help prolong people’s lives.
