A longtime friend of Joe Biden said the former president told him he was “alright” after his family was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer on Monday.
“I talked to my family. He’s doing good things,” said former Bob Brady (D-Pa.), who had known Biden for decades but hasn’t spoken directly to the former president since the news. “They aren’t overly worried. They think this could all be handled and I think he’s fine.”
Brady said Biden’s family “it looks like everything is good,” and “they’re thinking about what they should do, how they’re dealing with it, what I’m hearing, what I’m saying, what I’m saying. He admitted that cancer is “maybe a bit offensive,” but “That doesn’t matter. He’s going to treat it and he’ll be fine.”
Brady didn’t say which family or members spoke to him, and the aides didn’t elaborate. A Biden spokesman declined to comment.
Biden’s Office It was announced over the weekend The former president was diagnosed with prostate cancer on Friday, accompanied by metastasis to the bone. His team said that it is a “more aggressive form of disease,” but that cancer “appears to be hormonal sensitive to enable effective management.”
Still, the diagnosis of four stages of prostate cancer is serious. Dr. Chris George, medical director of the Northwestern Health Network’s cancer program; I told Reuters Prostate cancer cannot be cured once it reaches the bone, but it can be treated. But he said, Biden Effective treatment allowed me to live for years.
The announcement of Biden’s diagnosis came amid widespread criticism within Democrats about Biden’s physical and mental state during his presidency and his physical and mental state before he dropped out of the presidential campaign last year. It also matches the release of a Please make a reservation on Tuesday The inner circle claims that Biden continues to maintain a declined Biden, protected from the public. And last week axios I posted an audio clip of an interview with Biden with Robert Huar, the then expert advisor.
Brady, 80, and Biden, 82, We’ve been friends for over 30 yearsand their hometowns are less than an hour away. Brady I said it in 2024 He spoke with Biden almost every week, often about the Corvette. Brady has He was called Biden for a long time “Our senator, despite him being from Delaware.” Brady after the 2024 election. Describing former Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign And Biden said that if he stayed in the presidential election, he would have performed better than her.
Brady, the chairman of the Philadelphia Democrats, said Biden’s family told him the president would call him after Tuesday’s state primary.
“I call him the ‘boss’. They said that my boss would call you after the election,” he said.
He added Biden: “I love him until I die,” he said, “I didn’t want to bother me.”
