Former President Joe Biden has offered a sobering new update on his battle with metastatic prostate cancer, acknowledging that the disease is now forcing him to scale back plans surrounding the release of his presidential memoir.
Biden said his doctors remain encouraged by his response to treatment. But he also admitted that the illness is taking a real toll: some days are better than others, and while cancer has not stopped him, it sometimes slows him down.
Biden shared the update in a statement posted to X on Sunday:
The health disclosure came as Biden discussed Promise Me, America, his memoir scheduled for release on November 17. He said he had hoped to hold more conversations about the book, but his condition will prevent him from doing as many appearances as originally planned.
“However, I’m hopeful the words on the page speak for themselves,” Biden wrote.
The Washington Post reported that Biden’s publisher had initially announced a publicity tour to accompany the memoir. Biden’s latest statement makes clear that those plans will now be more limited, although his office did not provide additional medical details or a revised appearance schedule.
The November statement did not announce a new diagnosis. Biden’s office first disclosed in May 2025 that doctors had found an aggressive form of prostate cancer with a Gleason score of 9 and metastasis to the bone after he experienced increasing urinary symptoms.
At the time, his office said the cancer appeared to be hormone-sensitive, allowing for effective management. Biden responded publicly the following day, thanking Americans for their support and writing that he and former First Lady Jill Biden had learned they were “strongest in the broken places.”
The Associated Press reported that Biden and his family were reviewing treatment options with physicians after the diagnosis. The outlet explained that the cancer had spread to his bones and that a Gleason score of 9 placed it among the more aggressive forms of prostate cancer.
His office nevertheless said the disease appeared hormone-sensitive, an important distinction because that can make it more responsive to treatment and ongoing management. The disclosure drew messages of support from both parties, including President Trump, who wished Biden a fast and successful recovery.
Biden answered the public support with a photograph alongside Jill Biden and wrote that cancer “touches us all,” thanking people for lifting the family up with their love and prayers.
Biden later underwent radiation and hormone therapy. In September, he said the radiation had “worked as intended” and that doctors had helped bring the disease under control.
That September statement was cautiously hopeful. Biden did not claim that he was cancer-free or in remission, and the cancer’s spread beyond the prostate remained an important part of the medical picture.
The Times of Israel reported that Biden used his September message to encourage men to speak with their doctors about prostate cancer screening. He said more than 330,000 American men would receive a prostate-cancer diagnosis during the year and stressed the much stronger survival outlook when the disease is caught early.
Biden also thanked the doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals who helped control his cancer. He said he was continuing to do the things he cared about, including finishing his memoir.
Crucially, the report noted that Biden did not say he was cancer-free or in remission. His earlier bone metastasis remained part of the medical picture even though the radiation had worked as intended.
The latest update changes the emphasis without contradicting the earlier one. Biden says his doctors are still encouraged, but he is also being candid that living with the disease affects his stamina and his ability to maintain a full public schedule.
Biden is 83 and will turn 84 on November 20, three days after the book’s scheduled release. He has kept a relatively limited public schedule since leaving office and has made only selective appearances as treatment continued.
The announcement immediately drew the kind of ugly partisan reaction that now follows almost any political figure online. One critic used Biden’s health update to attack his immigration record:
Another response accused Biden’s family of profiting from his name and questioned whether he wrote the memoir himself:
Those reactions show how little political hostility pauses, even when the subject is metastatic cancer. Biden’s record deserves scrutiny, and the memoir will undoubtedly reopen arguments over his presidency, his withdrawal from the 2024 race, and what his inner circle told the public about his health.
Politics aside, cancer is a brutal disease that has touched nearly every American family. Biden’s record in office remains fair game for rigorous criticism, but no decent person should celebrate news that the disease is slowing him down.
His doctors remain encouraged. That is the hopeful part of this update.
The sobering part is that Biden himself now says the fight is changing what he can physically do — including how much he can travel and speak publicly for a memoir meant to define his legacy.
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