Former President Joe Biden is receiving radiation treatment for about five weeks for his advanced prostate cancer, according to a spokesperson.
&#8220;As part of a treatment plan for prostate cancer, President Biden is currently undergoing radiation therapy and hormone treatment,&#8221; the spokesperson said.
Biden has been taking a pill form of hormone medication, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/former-president-joe-biden-radiation-therapy-prostate-cancer-rcna237019?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma&amp;taid=68ea5740399eb60001a9aacb&amp;utm_campaign=trueanthem&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter">according</a> to NBC News.
The 82-year-old&#8217;s team <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/10/11/us-news/joe-biden-undergoing-radiation-in-new-phase-of-prostate-cancer-treatment-spokesperson-says/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=nypost&amp;utm_medium=social">says</a> Biden is &#8220;doing well.&#8221;
Biden first disclosed his aggressive cancer diagnosis back in May, mere months after he left office. At the time, it was reported that Biden had metastatic prostate cancer that had moved from the prostate all the way to his bones.
&#8220;Cancer touches us all,&#8221; Biden said on X, back in May. &#8220;Like so many of you, Jill and I have learned that we are strongest in the broken places. Thank you for lifting us up with love and support.&#8221;
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The diagnosis brought well-wishes and prayers from both sides of the political aisle, but it also raised questions &#8212; specifically, when did Biden insiders know about the cancer and how long did they wait to tell the public?
As noted by Daily Wire Editor Emeritus <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-was-senile-had-cancer-and-they-knew">Ben Shapiro</a>, prostate cancer is not a fast-moving cancer, and usually takes years to develop to the point of metastasis.
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There have also been questions surrounding Biden&#8217;s mental fitness and his use of the &#8220;autopen&#8221; while he was serving as president.
In June, President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-orders-investigation-into-biden-autopen-scandal">signed a memo</a> ordering an investigation into the matter, specifically calling for Counsel to the President to look into whether aides improperly used an autopen for executive actions in an effort to conceal Biden’s health issues while in office.
The memo directs officials to determine if “certain individuals conspired to deceive the public about Biden’s mental state and unconstitutionally exercise the authorities and responsibilities of the President.”
Additionally, there&#8217;s a House Oversight Committee investigation into the matter.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-was-senile-had-cancer-and-they-knew">Biden Was Senile, Had Cancer, And They Knew</a>

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A Los Angeles jury ordered Johnson &amp; Johnson to pay $966 million to the family of a woman who died from mesothelioma, finding the company liable in the latest trial alleging its talc products cause cancer.
The family of Mae Moore, a California resident who died at age 88 in 2021, sued the company the same year, claiming J&amp;J&#8217;s talc baby powder products contained asbestos fibers that caused her rare cancer. The jury late on Monday ordered J&amp;J to pay $16 million in compensatory damages and $950 million in punitive damages, according to court filings.
The verdict could be reduced on appeal as the U.S. Supreme Court has found that punitive damages should generally be no more than nine times compensatory damages.
Erik Haas, Johnson &amp; Johnson&#8217;s worldwide vice president of litigation, said in a statement that the company plans to immediately appeal, calling the verdict &#8220;egregious and unconstitutional.&#8221;
&#8220;The plaintiff lawyers in this Moore case based their arguments on ‘junk science’ that never should have been presented to the jury,&#8221; Haas said.
The company has said its products are safe, do not contain asbestos, and do not cause cancer. J&amp;J stopped selling talc-based baby powder in the U.S. in 2020, switching to a cornstarch product. Mesothelioma has been linked to asbestos exposure.
Trey Branham, one of the attorneys representing Moore&#8217;s family, said after the verdict that his team is “hopeful that Johnson &amp; Johnson will finally accept responsibility for these senseless deaths.”
J&amp;J is facing lawsuits from more than 67,000 plaintiffs who say they were diagnosed with cancer after using baby powder and other talc products, according to court filings. The number of lawsuits alleging talc caused mesothelioma is a small subset of these cases, with the vast majority involving ovarian cancer claims.
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J&amp;J has sought to resolve the litigation through bankruptcy, a proposal that has been rejected three times by federal courts.
Lawsuits alleging talc caused mesothelioma were not part of the last bankruptcy proposal. The company has previously settled some of those claims but has not struck a nationwide settlement, so many lawsuits over mesothelioma have proceeded to trial in state courts in recent months.
In the past year, J&amp;J has been hit with several substantial verdicts in mesothelioma cases, but Monday&#8217;s is among the largest. The company has won some of the mesothelioma trials, including last week in South Carolina, where a jury found J&amp;J not liable.
The company has been successful in reducing some of the awards on appeal, including in one Oregon case where a state judge granted J&amp;J&#8217;s motion to throw out a $260 million verdict and hold a new trial.
(Reporting by Diana Novak Jones; Editing by Alexia Garamfalvi, Rod Nickel and Bill Berkrot)

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“Dawson’s Creek” actor James Van Der Beek sent a video message to fans during the show’s reunion to make up for not being able to attend.
The 48-year-old celeb was forced to drop out of the event at the last minute due to a stomach illness. Van Der Beek has been battling stage 3 colorectal cancer since last year, as he previously announced.
“I have been looking forward to this night for months and months ever since my angel Michelle Williams said she was putting it together,” the “Dawson’s Creek” alum said in the recorded message, per <a href="https://people.com/james-van-der-beek-makes-surprise-appearance-dawsons-creek-reunion-after-canceling-due-illness-11815128">People</a>. “I can’t believe I’m not there. I can’t believe I don’t get to see my cast mates, my beautiful cast in person.”
“And just I want to stand on that stage and thank every single person in the theater for being here tonight,” Van Der Beek continued. “From the cast to the crew to everybody who’s doing anything and has been so generous, and especially every single last one of you – you are the best fans in the world.”
&#8220;Thank you for coming. It&#8217;s just absolutely humbling just how much you did for this night, and I just want to say thank you. Thank you to every single person here,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And, obviously, on &#8216;Dawson&#8217;s Creek,&#8217; I had no understudy, but this is Broadway, and I needed one. So we figured we&#8217;d try to find somebody who had never understudied in this theater before.&#8221;
The actor had “Hamilton” creator Lin Manuel Miranda take his place at the event, which included a live table read of the pilot episode. The original cast was all in attendance, including Michelle Williams, Katie Holmes, Joshua Jackson, and several others.
Van Der Beek’s wife and children were also in the audience at Richard Rodgers Theatre in New York City.
The star of the teen drama previously warned fans he wouldn’t be able to make the event with a social media post.
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“This is the evening I’d been looking forward to MOST since my angel Michelle Williams said she was putting it together, way back in January,” Van Der Beek shared to Instagram on Monday.
“So you can imagine how gutted I was when two stomach viruses conspired to knock me out of commission and keep me grounded at the worst possible moment. Despite every effort… I won’t get to be there. I won’t get to stand on that stage and thank every soul in the theater for showing up for me, and against cancer, when I needed it most.”

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A new experimental vaccine has been developed that appears to be successful in preventing recurrences of the deadly colorectal and pancreatic cancers.
A <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-025-03876-4">study</a> led by the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California, Los Angeles, tested the ELI-002 2P vaccine on 25 patients previously treated for pancreatic and colorectal cancers.
The vaccine could “help prevent or delay cancer recurrence in high-risk patients whose tumors are driven by KRAS mutations, which are responsible for half of colorectal cancers and more than 90 percent of pancreatic cancers, researchers noted,” The Hill <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/5458487-new-vaccine-cancer-recurrence-research/">reported.</a>
The patients were tested a year after the vaccine had been administered, and the average relapse-free survival times were significantly greater than historical norms.
Oncologist Dr. Thomas Marron told <a href="https://www.wane.com/news/promising-vaccine-may-prevent-certain-cancers-from-returning/amp/">NewsNation</a> the results are “extremely promising. Pancreatic cancer and colon cancer are really terrible cancers, and oftentimes even if patients can have curative-intense surgery, unfortunately this cancer tends to come back as microscopic bits of the cancer have already spread. This vaccine is really about teaching patients’ immune system how to recognize and attack those tiny amounts of cancers so that they keep them from coming back, increasing the likelihood that we can cure patients with surgery and chemotherapy or radiation.”
“Vaccines are all about teaching your immune system to recognize and attack something foreign,” he continued. “Oftentimes we catch colon cancer early because of colonoscopies and sometimes we’ll catch pancreatic cancer early enough so we can do a surgery and cut it out but small amounts remain. So the vaccine is really about teaching your immune system what in the cancer is foreign, because cancer is foreign to our body, and teaching your immune system how to hunt down and  eliminate those tiny bits that remain, and that really increases the likelihood that patients go in remission, stay in remission.”
The vaccine induced “persistent T cell responses targeting oncogenic driver KRAS mutations, alongside personalized, tumor antigen-specific T cells,” the study found, adding, “Tumor-promoting driver mutations in KRAS occur in approximately 20–25% of human tumors, including colorectal cancer (CRC) (50%) and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) (93%). Despite curative intent, relapses are common following standard locoregional therapy, particularly for resectable PDAC.”
“The long-term follow-up of the AMPLIFY-201 phase 1 study provides evidence that ELI-002 2P induces potent, polyfunctional CD4+ and CD8+ T cell immunity to mKRAS alongside frequent antigen spreading that may delay tumor recurrence,” the study stated.

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Scientists at the University of Florida in Gainesville are developing a universal cancer vaccine designed to target cancer cells already forming in the body. The vaccine could be especially effective against some of the deadliest cancers, including pancreatic and ovarian cancer.
The problem in the past has been that because cancers tend to be specific to each person, a cancer vaccine would have to be tailored for that specific individual rather than a one-size-fits-all vaccine, and in the time spent to create a personal vaccine, the cancer could mutate.
“It can be months from the time you get a patient&#8217;s specimen to when they actually have a personalized therapy,” study senior author and pediatric oncologist Dr. Elias Sayour said, as Live Science <a href="https://www.livescience.com/health/cancer/universal-cancer-vaccine-heading-to-human-trials-could-be-useful-for-all-forms-of-cancer">reports</a>. “The idea that something could be available immediately, albeit in a nonspecific way … could be revolutionary for how we bridge therapy and how we manage patients.”
The experimental vaccine was discussed in the journal <a style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;" href="https://go.redirectingat.com/?id=92X1590019&amp;xcust=livescience_us_1632594187414033690&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nature.com%2Farticles%2Fs41551-025-01380-1&amp;sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.livescience.com%2Fhealth%2Fcancer%2Funiversal-cancer-vaccine-heading-to-human-trials-could-be-useful-for-all-forms-of-cancer" data-analytics-id="inline-link" data-url="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-025-01380-1" data-hl-processed="skimlinks" data-placeholder-url="https://go.redirectingat.com/?id=92X1590019&amp;xcust=hawk-custom-tracking&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nature.com%2Farticles%2Fs41551-025-01380-1&amp;sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.livescience.com%2Fhealth%2Fcancer%2Funiversal-cancer-vaccine-heading-to-human-trials-could-be-useful-for-all-forms-of-cancer" data-google-interstitial="false" data-merchant-name="nature.com" data-merchant-network="SkimLinks" data-mrf-recirculation="[Livescience] Article - Inline Link" data-mrf-link="https://go.redirectingat.com/?id=92X1590019&amp;xcust=livescience_us_4664427368791827916&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nature.com%2Farticles%2Fs41551-025-01380-1&amp;sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.livescience.com%2Fhealth%2Fcancer%2Funiversal-cancer-vaccine-heading-to-human-trials-could-be-useful-for-all-forms-of-cancer" data-custom-tracking-id="1632594187414033690" data-hawk-tracked="hawklinks" data-label="Nature Biomedical Engineering">Nature Biomedical Engineering</a>; the abstract stated, “Our findings show that the resistance of tumors to immunotherapy is dictated by the absence of a damage response, which can be restored by boosting early type-I interferon responses to enable epitope spreading and self-amplifying responses in treatment-refractory tumors.”
The experimental vaccine is built on mRNA that triggers cells to produce new proteins, and hopes to strengthen the body to create more type-I interferons, which can locate cancerous tumors.
Sayour explained that cancer can impede interferon signals and block anti-cancer immune responses, so the experimental vaccine could catalyze an immune “reset.”
“I personally think this can be used for all forms of cancer,” Sayour stated. “I believe this is a universal paradigm that can be used to treat cancer,” adding that the vaccine could stop a relapse of the cancer after remission.
“This exciting and novel paper shows promising evidence that giving the immune system a short, targeted boost at just the right time can help previously unresponsive tumors respond to immunotherapy,&#8221; Diana Azzam, from the Center for Advancing Personalized Cancer Treatments at Florida International University, said. “This approach could be especially helpful for ‘cold’ tumors — types of cancer that usually don&#8217;t trigger a strong immune response, like pancreatic, ovarian, and some types of breast cancer.”
“Sayour and his colleagues have <a style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;" href="https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05660408" data-analytics-id="inline-link" data-url="https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05660408" data-hl-processed="none" data-mrf-recirculation="[Livescience] Article - Inline Link" data-mrf-link="https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05660408" data-custom-tracking-id="3743527965317849267" data-hawk-tracked="hawklinks" data-google-interstitial="false" data-label="launched a human trial testing a two-hit approach">launched a human trial testing a two-hit approach</a>: an off-the-shelf cancer vaccine followed by a personalized one,” Live Science noted. “This approach saves valuable time needed for personalized vaccinations and may induce rapid immunity that can be further seized upon by personalized therapy,&#8221; Sayour asserted.

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University of Colorado football coach Deion Sanders announced on Monday that he had been diagnosed with bladder cancer — and that he had undergone a successful surgery to remove the tumor.
Sanders gave a <a href="https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/45843439/colorado-coach-deion-sanders-said-battled-bladder-cancer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press conference</a> at the Touchdown Club in the Dal Ward Athletic Center on Monday to update the public on his health, and urged everyone to &#8220;get checked out.&#8221; Sanders appeared alongside Dr. Janet Kukreja, director of urological oncology at University of Colorado Cancer Center, to make the announcement and take questions.
Kukreja began by touting the success of the surgery, saying that Sanders had been declared &#8220;cancer free&#8221; after the surgery was completed. &#8220;The results from the surgery are that he is cured from the cancer.&#8221;
After a brief pause, Sanders quipped, &#8220;You can clap, it&#8217;s ok.&#8221;
The audience laughed and applauded.
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&#8220;It was dynamic. It was tough. It wasn&#8217;t a cakewalk. It wasn&#8217;t easy. That was a fight, but we made it,&#8221; Sanders said, adding, &#8220;You have no idea how good God has been to me.&#8221;
Questions have swirled about Sanders and his health since his son, Deion Sanders Jr., posted a video over the summer in which he could be heard talking about a &#8220;health issue&#8221; he was dealing with: &#8220;I ain&#8217;t all the way recovered.&#8221;
He opted not to address any health-related questions at Big 12 Media Days, further fueling speculation about his condition.
Sanders said on Monday that throughout the ordeal, he has also lost 25 pounds — but that he was ready to return to coaching for the 2025-2026 season.
He followed with a message to the crowd, calling on them to &#8220;get checked out.&#8221;
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“Please get yourself checked out… because it could have been a whole other gathering if I hadn’t.”<a href="https://twitter.com/DeionSanders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DeionSanders</a> shares a message to everyone during his health update press conference ⬇️ <a href="https://t.co/QBi2v8Ri2L">pic.twitter.com/QBi2v8Ri2L</a>
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&#8220;Please get yourself checked out, especially African American men, we don&#8217;t like going to the doctors, we don&#8217;t like nothing to do with the doctor, you know that — so I&#8217;m not just talking to the brothers, I&#8217;m talking to my caucasian brothers, my hispanic brothers, my Asian brothers, everybody and my sisters. And that&#8217;s all ya&#8217;ll. Get checked out, because it could have been a whole &#8216;nother gathering if I hadn’t.&#8221;
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The Trump White House said in a post on X that they are lifting up young Devarjaye &#8220;DJ&#8221; Daniel in prayer, following news that doctors have discovered three new tumors.
Daniel won the hearts of Americans across the country when he was singled out by President Donald Trump during his joint address to Congress in March. Daniel, who was diagnosed with brain cancer at the age of six and subsequently underwent more than a dozen surgeries, was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-honors-13-year-old-brain-cancer-survivor-makes-him-honorary-secret-service-agent" target="_blank" rel="noopener">made an honorary Secret Service agent</a>.
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The teen boy&#8217;s father, Theodis Daniel, recently revealed that his son has three new tumors.
&#8220;Just winging it day by day. He does have three new tumors,&#8221; Theodis said, <a href="https://www.fox7austin.com/news/dj-daniel-honorary-swearing-in-brain-cancer-williamson-county" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to FOX 7 Austin. &#8220;It&#8217;s rough, there isn&#8217;t a class that can teach you how to deal with it. You&#8217;re hearing that your child has a nasty disease.&#8221;
The White House responded on Friday, sharing photos of Daniel with President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump.
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&#8220;We’re lifting up Agent DJ Daniel in prayer after his dad, Theodis, shared that DJ is now facing three new tumors,&#8221; the post said. &#8220;DJ is one of the strongest, bravest young men—and has now been sworn into 1,351 law enforcement agencies across the country.&#8221;
&#8220;Agent Daniel, you&#8217;re a true legend,&#8221; the White House added.
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We’re lifting up Agent DJ Daniel in prayer after his dad, Theodis, shared that DJ is now facing three new tumors.
DJ is one of the strongest, bravest young men—and has now been sworn into 1,351 law enforcement agencies across the country.
Agent Daniel, you&#8217;re a true legend. 🇺🇸 <a href="https://t.co/UH9sCOeWvE">pic.twitter.com/UH9sCOeWvE</a>
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Theodis told FOX that they tried an experimental medicine for his son. &#8220;Look at him, he&#8217;s happy, vibrant,&#8221; he said.
Theodis also referenced his son&#8217;s signature sense of humor, which has included Daniel saying he&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="https://x.com/JackPosobiec/status/1897418202478731764" target="_blank" rel="noopener">coming after you</a>&#8221; if he sees anyone being &#8220;mean to President Trump.&#8221;
&#8220;I never know what&#8217;s going to come out of his mouth,&#8221; Theodis said. &#8220;It makes me nervous half the time, because he has jokes.&#8221;
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Former President Joe Biden told reporters on Friday that he could &#8220;beat the hell outta both of them,&#8221; referencing CNN anchor Jake Tapper and journalist Alex Thompson, who co-authored a book detailing Biden&#8217;s cognitive decline and the corresponding White House cover-up.
&#8220;There&#8217;s also been a lot of discussion recently about your mental and physical capabilities while you were in office,&#8221; a reporter said to Biden at a public event in Delaware, <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/05/30/biden_to_cnn_prognosis_is_good_i_cant_walk_but_i_can_beat_the_hell_out_of_jake_tapper.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to RealClearPolitics.
&#8220;You can see that I&#8217;m mentally incompetent and I can&#8217;t walk, and I can beat the hell out of both of them,&#8221; Biden responded, seeming to reference the authors.
Though Tapper details Biden&#8217;s cognitive decline in his new book, the anchor has been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jake-tapper-flails-when-confronted-with-his-role-in-biden-cover-up" target="_blank" rel="noopener">strongly criticized</a> by the Right for refusing to acknowledge Biden&#8217;s very apparent mental troubles during his presidency.
At the same event, another reporter followed up on the health reports and asked Biden about the 2024 election. &#8220;Do you want to reply to any of those reports, and also to the fact that there are some Democrats who are now questioning whether you should have run for reelection in the first place?&#8221;
&#8220;Why didn&#8217;t they run against me then?&#8221; the former president challenged. &#8220;Because I&#8217;d have beaten them.&#8221;
Biden added that he doesn&#8217;t have &#8220;any regrets&#8221; about staying in the presidential race for as long as he did.
&#8220;Look, there&#8217;s a lot going on, and I think we&#8217;re in a really difficult moment—not only in American history, but in world history,&#8221; Biden continued. &#8220;I think we&#8217;re in one of those inflection points in history where the decisions we make in the next little bit are going to determine what things look like for the next 20 years. I&#8217;ve been talking about that for a long time. And I&#8217;m very proud. I&#8217;d put my record as president against any president at all.&#8221;
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&#8220;You notice the 12&#8211;the 10 leading presidential historians rated me pretty good up on that list—and the guy I ran against, [they] rated him last,&#8221; he said, referencing President Donald Trump. &#8220;So, we’ll see.&#8221;
The former president also briefly discussed his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/why-a-top-cancer-doctor-says-bidens-diagnosis-story-doesnt-add-up" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cancer diagnosis</a>, which was made public earlier this month.
&#8220;The prognosis is good. And, you know, we&#8217;re working on everything,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s moving along, so I feel good.&#8221;
Detailing his treatment, Biden added, &#8220;It&#8217;s all a matter of taking a pill, one particular pill, for the next six weeks, and then another one. And the expectation is we&#8217;re going to be able to beat this. It&#8217;s not in any organ. My bones are strong. It hasn&#8217;t penetrated. So I&#8217;m feeling good.&#8221;
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&#8220;The prognosis is good.&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t have any regrets.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/EV4xqHQgRV">pic.twitter.com/EV4xqHQgRV</a>
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“Dilbert” cartoonist Scott Adams said he received a call from President Donald Trump after announcing that he’d been diagnosed with terminal cancer.
“Somebody’s calling me from some number I don’t recognize, something in Florida and I sent it to voicemail. And a little bit later I thought, I better check that voicemail and see if that was anything I need to deal with. And the first sentence in the transcription, cause you know the phone gives you the text version of the voicemail as well. The first sentence is, ‘This is your favorite president.’ And I thought to myself, no, did I just send the most important person in the world to voicemail?” Adams told the audience of his “Real Coffee with Scott Adams” show.
The cartoonist said Trump left a message asking him to call him back, but he thought that was “ridiculous” because the president would be too busy.
“Same day, it’s the afternoon, and all of a sudden another call comes through, also from Florida, and I thought to myself, no f***ing way, there’s no way he’s calling me again, and I answer it, and it’s Trump,” he continued.
“At the end, the strangest thing happened at the end of the call when he found out, you know, the situation was kind of dire, and I was still checking out some things that might help, he said, ‘If you need anything, I’ll make it happen,&#8217;” Adams went on.
“And he meant it. He was completely aware of our, let’s say, parallel journeys from 2015, he mentioned it, and it was just the most incredible, weird, hard to understand situation, but boy, was it fun.”
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Adams recently made the announcement that he has the same cancer as former President Joe Biden.
“I’ve decided today’s the day I’m going to take the opportunity — since a lot of you are here — to make an announcement of my own. Some of you have already guessed, so it won’t surprise you at all, but I have the same cancer Joe Biden has,” he said during an episode of his show.
“So I also have prostate cancer that has also spread to my bones. I’ve had it longer than he’s had — well longer than he’s admitted having it,” Adams added.

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Dr. Stephen Quay does not believe President Joe Biden was only just diagnosed with Stage 4 prostate cancer, telling The Daily Wire, &#8220;there is a mismatch between the standard of care [Biden] should have been getting, and what we&#8217;re hearing about now.&#8221;
Quay, a University of Michigan-educated doctor, author, and <a href="https://drquay.com/">renowned scientist</a>, spoke to The Daily Wire just days after the former president&#8217;s office announced that he had been diagnosed with an &#8220;aggressive form&#8221; of prostate cancer that had already metastasized to his bones. He said he&#8217;s received death threats since he began speaking out about Biden&#8217;s diagnosis, calling the experience &#8220;quite bizarre.&#8221;
But Quay made it clear that he is simply offering thoughts &#8220;based on peer-reviewed papers that address large populations.&#8221; To that end, he notes that 85 to 90% of all cases, the disease progression from localized in the prostate to advanced metastatic disease is a process that plays out &#8220;over the course of five to seven years.&#8221;
Quay made it clear that while a rapid onset of advanced disease was certainly possible, that was only the case in perhaps one or two percent of patients. He also noted the fact that Biden&#8217;s cancer is &#8220;hormone sensitive&#8221; could potentially explain the former president&#8217;s physical and cognitive decline.
&#8220;The standard treatment would be to deprive the body of testosterone through <a href="https://www.cancer.org/cancer/types/prostate-cancer/treating/hormone-therapy.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Androgen Deprivation Therapy,&#8221;</a> Quay said. For a man of Biden&#8217;s age, such a precipitous drop in testosterone could lead patients to lose muscle tone and become noticeably weaker.
&#8220;Out of 100 men, nearly 40% will have a serious fall within six to 12 months of ADT treatment,&#8221; he said, adding that another common side effect had to do with patients seeing cognitive issues.
&#8220;Some of that will be self-reported, where they just notice that maybe they&#8217;re not as sharp as they have been in the past,&#8221; Quay said, also noting that the people around the patient might also notice cognitive decline even when the patient himself did not.
While Quay said that he had no knowledge of whether Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/doctors-raise-questions-about-timing-of-biden-cancer-diagnosis-unbelievable-this-was-missed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">knew of his diagnosis</a> prior to his office&#8217;s public announcement, he said that it was possible that the former president&#8217;s noticeably awkward gait and obvious cognitive issues were side effects of the standard treatment for his cancer.
If that were the case, he added, he could understand why someone in Biden&#8217;s position might have made a &#8220;calculated decision&#8221; not to release the information to the public.
&#8220;He might have not had the cognitive issues when he decided to go ahead with a campaign,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s true that he probably couldn’t be elected with cancer or cognitive issues, so at some point, he would have to make a calculated decision whether or not to tell people. But to speak to whether or not that was the right course of action, I stop being a doctor with an opinion and start being a voter with an opinion — and that’s fine as long as I can keep them compartmentalized.&#8221;
A Biden spokesman has said that <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/joe-biden-psa-screening-2014-prostate-cancer-rcna208120" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nothing was hidden</a> from the public and that the former president did not receive his prostate cancer diagnosis until last Friday. The spokesman also said Biden&#8217;s last known prostate cancer screening — called a Prostate Specific Antigen test — was in 2014.
Quay discussed the efficacy of PSAs in an X post shortly after Biden&#8217;s diagnosis was made public.
&#8220;Prostate cancer is the easiest cancer to diagnose when it first starts and to watch it progress to bone metastases,&#8221; he wrote.
&#8220;The PSA blood test shows the rate of cancer cell growth. For even with the most aggressive form, it is a 5-7 year journey without treatment before it becomes metastatic. Meaning, it would be malpractice for this patient to show up and be first diagnosed with metastatic disease in May 2025. It is highly likely he was carrying a diagnosis of prostate cancer throughout his White House tenure and the American people were uninformed.&#8221;
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&#8220;If you can believe what they say, that it is hormone sensitive, that means that it would be detectable in PSA (Prostate Specific Antigen) levels,&#8221; he said, noting that PSA testing is not always recommended after age 69, but that for someone in Biden&#8217;s position it seemed unwise not to go ahead with the test.
&#8220;There is a mismatch between the standard of care that he should have been getting and what we’re hearing about now.&#8221;

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'There Is A Mismatch': Dr. Steven Quay Explains Why Biden's Cancer News Doesn't Quite Add Up

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Former President Joe Biden’s cancer announcement prompts questions about an even deeper health cover-up. And, President Donald Trump’s budget bill clears another hurdle – but will it lead to unsustainable debt? It’s Tuesday, May 20, and this is the news you need to know to start your day.
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<h2>Biden&#8217;s Prostate Cancer, Health Problems &amp; Possible Cover-Up</h2>
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Topline: As we learn more details of Joe Biden’s cancer prognosis, there are growing questions about whether the former president was diagnosed while in office, and if the news was kept from the American people.
The country and Capitol Hill are still reeling from the news that Biden has stage 4 cancer — news that’s come amid new evidence of the cover-up of the former president’s mental decline. Putting political differences aside, President Trump said in a statement that he and first lady Melania are saddened to hear about the diagnosis and, “We extend our warmest and best wishes to Jill and the family, and we wish Joe a fast and successful recovery.”
The more we learn about the former president’s prognosis, the more concerning it appears. Prostate cancer is typically among the most treatable forms of cancer when caught early, but in Biden’s case, it’s metastasized — or spread — to his bones. Doctors say that makes it nearly impossible to treat. Every case is different, but the five-year survival rate for prostate cancer patients deemed metastatic is just <a href="https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/prostate-cancer/prostate-cancer-prognosis">28%</a>. The severity of a prostate cancer diagnosis is graded on the Gleason scale of 6 to 10, and Biden is at a Gleason Scale 9, meaning his cancer is very aggressive and likely to spread further.
The former president issued his first <a href="https://x.com/JoeBiden/status/1924427587582828753">public statement</a> since his diagnosis was publicly announced on Monday, saying, “Cancer touches us all. Like so many of you, Jill and I have learned that we are strongest in the broken places. Thank you for lifting us up with love and support.”
A stage 4 cancer diagnosis is a touchy subject, but when the patient is the former president, there’s good reason to ask questions. It’s very unusual for prostate cancer to have already metastasized by the time of diagnosis — that’s only the case for about one in twenty prostate cancer patients. Presidents have access to the best health care on earth and have regular checkups — medical experts say it would’ve been nearly impossible for a cancer this advanced to have only been noticed last week. If Biden and his team knew he had this serious, potentially fatal illness last year, and ran a re-election campaign without telling anyone, it would be among the biggest political scandals in American history. Steven Quay, former faculty member at Stanford’s Pathology Department, put it bluntly, saying, “It is highly likely he was carrying a diagnosis of prostate cancer throughout his White House tenure and the American people were uninformed.”
“Most likely he had prostate cancer for a long time,” Dr. David Shusterman, a renowned urologist, told NewsNation. “Aggressive prostate cancer such as this at age 80 grows over a long period of time. I mean usually it takes 5-10 years. … There’s definitely evidence that he probably knew about this for a while.”
The timing of this announcement has also cast doubt on the veracity of the official timeline. The cancer announcement came just two days after audio recordings of his interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur were released, and just a day and a half before a highly anticipated book documenting his physical and cognitive decline was set to be published. Skeptics say that the timing is no coincidence and was meant to deflect questions about a potential White House cover-up regarding his mental decline while in office.
David Axelrod, a political consultant and former advisor to the Obama administration, called for restraint on criticism of Biden and his inner circle in the wake of the diagnosis, telling <a href="https://x.com/WesternLensman/status/1924266629132591464">CNN</a> that “those conversations should be more muted and set aside for now.”
Donald Trump Jr. told The Daily Wire that the announcement timing is suspicious. “The fact that it breaks this week that he has it and we are told we’re not allowed to talk about anything Joe Biden right now because that would be uncouth screams to me to be an additional part of this cover-up.”
<h2>Trump&#8217;s &#8216;Big Beautiful&#8217; Budget Bill Leaves Committee Amid Intense Debt Debate</h2>
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Topline: In a rare Sunday vote, Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” cleared a key procedural hurdle – despite grave concerns about national debt from within the GOP.
After President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” failed to pass through the House Budget Committee last week, several concessions were made to more conservative members of the House Republican Caucus to garner their support. The newest version of the bill features more cuts to green energy and will impose Medicaid work requirements for able-bodied recipients more quickly – under the earlier framework, those work requirements wouldn’t kick in until 2029. It was only after those promises were made that Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) and three other conservatives decided to vote “present” so the bill could pass out of committee in a 17-16 party-line vote.
But even with those promises, the bill’s future is still in limbo. Roy <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trumps-big-beautiful-bill-advances-out-of-committee-but-conservatives-demand-more-changes">said</a> on X that “the bill does not yet meet the moment.” Of course, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has to walk an ideological tightrope to get any legislation passed with a razor-thin Republican majority – more cuts run the risk of angering moderates over too many conservative reforms.
Context: The United States is nearly $37 trillion in debt with no realistic plan to begin to pay it off. Through April of this year, interest payments on the national debt made up <a href="https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/national-debt/#:~:text=Maintaining%20the%20National%20Debt,an%20increase%20in%20interest%20expense.&amp;text=Visit%20the%20Average%20Interest%20Rates,explore%20and%20download%20this%20data.&amp;text=When%20interest%20rates%20remain%20low,government%20just%20print%20more%20money?">about</a> 16% of all federal spending, and that percentage is almost certain to increase over the next few years. Moody’s dropped the U.S. credit rating on Friday from the highest possible AAA to AA1, citing the ever-growing federal deficit to explain its decision. That sent yields on 10 and 30-year bonds up, and, over time, it could push the cost of borrowing up – that means higher rates for auto loans, home loans, and even credit cards. 
“The debt is a long term train wreck waiting to happen,” Jason Katz, managing director and senior portfolio manager at UBS, a Swiss investment bank, told Fox Business. “In the short term, however, we have this sugar high and, hopefully, we can grow our way out of this issue through a larger tax base earning more money.”
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt responded to Moody’s credit downgrade on Monday, painting a rosier picture of America’s economic prospects. “We have seen trillions of dollars of investments flowing into our economy since the president took office,” Leavitt said. “People around the world have confidence in the United States of America. And if you also just look at the raw economic data that we&#8217;re seeing last week when we were out of town, inflation dropped once again. Oil prices are dropping, gas prices are dropping. The president has added nearly 5 million jobs to the American economy already, so there&#8217;s a lot of optimism in this economy.”

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Scott Adams, the creator of the “Dilbert” comic strip, predicted that he will die sometime this summer after revealing a diagnosis for prostate cancer on Monday.
Adams announced his cancer diagnosis on his “Coffee with Scott Adams” show on Rumble. Adams said that he, like former President Joe Biden, has prostate cancer that has metastasized to the bone.
“I have the same cancer that Joe Biden has. I also have prostate cancer that has also spread to my bones,” said Adams. “My life expectancy is maybe this summer. I expect to be checking out from this domain sometime this summer.”
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Scott Adams gives solid words of wisdom after revealing his cancer diagnosis.
&quot;I realize that for some of you, this is hitting you hard because you&#39;re hearing it for the first time.&quot;
&quot;I have to say that everybody has to die, as far as I know. And it&#39;s kind of civilized that you… <a href="https://t.co/g5eRulqKH8">pic.twitter.com/g5eRulqKH8</a>
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“Now, I realized that for some of you, this is hitting you kind of hard because you&#8217;re hearing it for the first time. Weirdly, since it&#8217;s old news to me, I&#8217;ve just sort of processed it, so it just sort of is what it is,” he added.
Adams did not spare his listeners of the effect that the cancer was having on him, describing it as “really painful – like really, really painful.” He also explained that he waited so long to inform the public of his diagnosis because “once you go public, you&#8217;re just the dying cancer guy, and I didn&#8217;t want you to have to think about it, and I didn&#8217;t want to have to think about it.”
“I am unusually mentally tough. So, while this could be much worse, you know, for some people, I suppose, I&#8217;m handling it quite well,” Adams continued. “The pain is tough – I mean really tough – but the mental part, you know, I got that under control. And I can see in the comments that some of you are having a tough time with it. But remember, nothing lasts forever. Nothing lasts forever.”
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Scott Adams gives solid words of wisdom after revealing his cancer diagnosis.
&quot;I realize that for some of you, this is hitting you hard because you&#39;re hearing it for the first time.&quot;
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&mdash; Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) <a href="https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1924525515433800161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Biden’s office revealed on Sunday that he has stage four prostate cancer. The statement from his office said the cancer is an “aggressive form” that has spread to his bones. The statement said Biden received the diagnosis on Friday, sparking some skepticism among doctors who said that an advanced stage of cancer should have been caught in tests much sooner for someone who was President of the United States just several months ago.
President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-surprised-bidens-cancer-wasnt-announced-earlier-that-test-is-standard">said</a> he was “surprised” by the diagnosis on Monday afternoon.
“I think it’s very sad, actually. I’m surprised that the public wasn’t notified a long time ago because to get to stage 9, that’s a long time,” said Trump.

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