{"id":42453,"date":"2025-05-18T22:16:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T03:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=42453"},"modified":"2025-05-18T23:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T04:02:10","slug":"obamas-react-to-biden-cancer-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=42453","title":{"rendered":"Obamas react to Biden cancer diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Former&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/barack-obama\/\"><u>President Obama\u2002<\/u><\/a>on Sunday responded to news of former&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/joe-biden\/\"><u>President Biden\u2019s\u2002<\/u><\/a>prostate cancer diagnosis by expressing confidence in his former vice president\u2019s \u201ctrademark resolve and grace.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">He also pointed to the work Biden has done to advance cancer research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cMichelle and I are thinking of the entire Biden family,\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/obama\/\"><u>Obama\u2002<\/u><\/a>wrote in a post on X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cNobody has done more to find breakthrough treatments for cancer in all its forms than Joe, and I am certain he will fight this challenge with his trademark resolve and grace,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cWe pray for a fast and full recovery,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Biden led the Obama administration\u2019s Cancer Moonshot initiative, which aimed to accelerate cancer research, improve prevention and treatment strategies, foster greater collaboration in the medical research space and improve access to care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Biden relaunched the initiative during his term as president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The message comes shortly after Biden\u2019s spokesperson announced the \u201caggressive\u201d cancer diagnosis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cLast week, President&nbsp;Joe Biden&nbsp;was seen for a new finding of a prostate nodule after experiencing increasing urinary symptoms,\u201d the statement from Biden\u2019s personal office read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cOn Friday he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, characterized by a Gleason score of 9 (Grade Group 5) with metastasis to the bone,\u201d it continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cWhile this represents a more aggressive form of the disease, the cancer appears to be hormone-sensitive which allows for effective management. The President and his family are reviewing treatment options with his physicians.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/5306882-obama-encourages-biden-after-cancer-diagnosis\/\">thehill<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former&nbsp;President Obama\u2002on Sunday responded to news of former&nbsp;President Biden\u2019s\u2002prostate cancer diagnosis by expressing confidence in his former vice president\u2019s \u201ctrademark resolve and grace.\u201d He also pointed to the work Biden has done to advance cancer research. \u201cMichelle and I are thinking of the entire Biden family,\u201d&nbsp;Obama\u2002wrote in a post on X. \u201cNobody has done more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":42454,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1169,2675,2270,10443],"class_list":["post-42453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-biden","tag-cancer","tag-obama","tag-reaction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42455,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42453\/revisions\/42455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}