OAN Staff Brooke Mallory
6:38 PM – Tuesday, September 8, 2026
Former President Joe Biden shared a personal health update regarding his ongoing battle with advanced prostate cancer, using the occasion of Prostate Cancer Awareness Month to deliver a message about early detection and medical screenings.
The 83-year-old former president confirmed that the radiation therapy he completed late last year “worked as intended,” allowing him to “remain active and continue writing” his presidential memoir.
His latest update aligns with recent reports from his family, including former First Lady Jill Biden, who stated that recent medical scans produced “encouraging” results, with his prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels currently measuring at zero.
The update also follows Biden’s public reveal in May 2025 that he had been diagnosed with aggressive, Stage IV metastatic prostate cancer after experiencing urinary symptoms that led doctors to discover a nodule on his prostate.
Medical assessments characterized the cancer with a high-risk Gleason score of 9, meaning the disease was aggressive and had already spread to his bones.
Despite the severity of the diagnosis, physicians said that the cancer was hormone-sensitive, enabling effective targeted therapies alongside several weeks of radiation treatment at Penn Medicine in Philadelphia.
While family members have acknowledged the physical toll that managing advanced cancer takes on the former president — with his son, Hunter Biden, describing the bone metastasis as a painful and daily physical challenge — Biden claims that he remains focused on advocacy work.
In his statement, Biden emphasized the lifesaving potential of proactive healthcare, pleading with American men to overcome hesitancy and regularly discuss prostate cancer screenings with their physicians.
The post also noted that while average-risk men should begin conversations around age 50, higher-risk groups, including Black men and those with a family history of the disease, should seek guidance even earlier.
“Every September we mark Prostate Cancer Awareness Month. This year it’s more personal for me.
More than 330,000 American men this year will hear the words we did last spring when I was diagnosed with prostate cancer. By the time we found it, it had already spread to my bones. When prostate cancer is caught early, the five-year survival is close to 100%. So have the conversation with your doctor. Don’t put it off.
If you’re at average risk, that conversation should start around 50, and the guidelines now say screening every 2 to 4 years. If you’re a Black man, start it at 45 or earlier. You are nearly 70% more likely to get this disease and 2 to 4 times more likely to die from it. Which is an outrage in the richest country in the world.
If your father or your brother had prostate cancer, start the conversation at 45, and even earlier if more than one of them did.
I am deeply grateful to the doctors, nurses and other medical professionals who helped to control my cancer and who continue to take such good care of me. Their skill, dedication, and compassion mean so much. The radiation treatment from last fall worked as intended, and I continue to do the things I care about, like finishing my memoir.
Thank you to everyone who has reached out and continues to keep me and my family in your prayers. We appreciate every single one of you. It’s my hope and prayer that by sharing our experience and being part of this important conversation, we can help save lives. Talk to your doctors. Ask the hard questions. Do it for yourself, and do it for the people who love you.
And no matter what, keep the faith. God bless you,” the former president posted on X.
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