Posted on 05/27/2025 7:46:12 AM PDT by karpov
Joe Biden’s stage 4 prostate cancer diagnosis raises many questions, not least why a U.S. president with access to the best healthcare in the world didn’t have routine blood screenings that could have caught the disease before it turned deadly.
One possible culprit is an excessive deference to so-called experts, many of whom believe older people shouldn’t be screened for cancer because they are likely to die in short order anyway. This is the view of liberals like Ezekiel Emanuel, an Obama and Biden adviser, who want to put government in control of all Americans’ healthcare.
A Biden spokesperson last week said the former president hadn’t received a prostate-specific antigen blood test since 2014, when he was 71 or 72. A high level on the test can signal cancer, though it can also raise false alarms. On the flip side, it doesn’t miss many cancers.
In 2008 the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force—an independent panel of putative experts that reviews evidence for preventive screenings and treatments—categorically recommended against screening men 75 or older for prostate cancer. Four years later, the panel advised against PSA screening in all men.
The panel in both instances deduced that men who get a high reading on the test might undergo unnecessary treatments, carrying risks like erectile dysfunction, for cancers that may be slow-growing and unlikely to shorten their lives. After advanced cancers increased, the panel modified its recommendation in 2018 to suggest physicians discuss risks and benefits of screenings with patients ages 55 to 69 while recommending against screenings for those 70 and older. But why don’t the experts trust older patients and their physicians to make informed decisions based on their individual benefits and risks?
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Maybe Biden and his family and staff did not want the truth about his health.
Maybe Biden and his family and staff knew he had cancer and wanted to use that as a sympathetic exit tool after he was re-elected.
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PSA screening poses no “risks” per se to patients that their doctors would need to “discuss”.
Gee Mr. Kumquat, we wouldn’t want to risk wasting money on your worthess induvidual hide when we have the collective to [disingenuously] worry about.
He had them. they lie.
Or it’s a just another bloody lie and he doesn’t have cancer.
Biden’s entire existence is based on lies. I’m not convinced that he actually has cancer.
As much as they’ve lied, I question whether he even has cancer
Or is this just for sympathy?
Maybe power-mad Democrats told him “No PSA test for you!”
Why hasn’t the task force, most of whose members were appointed by Mr. Biden’s health and human services secretary, Xavier Becerra, reconsidered its prostate screening recommendation?
Old white men are usually Republicans. Getting rid of them is good for Democrats.
Cute how the little rat at the WSJ just accepts the premise that the Biden’s didn’t know about this until now. Yeah right no way a Dem would lie.
The whole prostate cancer matter just extends the awareness of how much the cabal running the White House was willing to go to makeup Biden’s fitness.
Another explanation is that he had the test, knew the result and lied about it.
“””Another explanation is that he had the test, knew the result and lied about it.”””
Are you trying to insinuate that the beloved 46th President would lie about stuff???????
Personal physician: "He didn't test positive on any of the cancer tests!"
Press: "How's that?"
Personal physician: "Because we didn't even bother testing him: He's so old and decrepit, he'll probably die anyway before the cancer totally consumes his brain!"
Regards,
Thank you for posting this article .
For those who don’t know, the PSA test is just one of several that can be done when they draw blood. It’s not like it is something extra you have to endure. That’s why Biden’s not getting screened makes no sense to me. They were no doubt drawing his blood for other things anyway.
The downsides mentioned pale in comparison to death by bone cancer in my opinion. I’m scheduled to see my urologist next week. I’m going to make a point of telling him that I’m happy that I have received better care from him than that of the former President of the United States.
When Biden’s doctor is called to testify before a congressional committee, don’t be surprised if he refuses to answer their questions based on “doctor-patient confidentiality.”
Has any medical authority stated he/she examined Biden and as the result of tests can assure Biden and the public that he has fast growing prostate cancer?? If not, why not?
Or is this more from the Biden administration’s propaganda office??
Another Biden Scam.
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