{"id":3934,"date":"2025-05-19T23:04:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T23:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/19\/biden-cancer-analysis-by-lawrence-altman-physician-reporter-presidential-health-expert\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T23:04:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T23:04:14","slug":"biden-cancer-analysis-by-lawrence-altman-physician-reporter-presidential-health-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/19\/biden-cancer-analysis-by-lawrence-altman-physician-reporter-presidential-health-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: I\u2019ve reported on presidents\u2019 health for 53 years. No public evidence suggests Biden\u2019s doctors mishandled prostate cancer testing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Opinion: I\u2019ve reported on presidents\u2019 health for 53 years. No public evidence suggests Biden\u2019s doctors mishandled prostate cancer testing
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News of former\u00a0President Biden\u2019s aggressive and incurable prostate cancer<\/a>\u00a0has surprised the public (and presumably him).<\/p>\n

Based on the public record of Biden\u2019s medical care and standard medical recommendations, as recently as a year ago there was no reason to perform screening tests for the disease, despite his age, 81 at the time.\u00a0The diagnosis underscores the fact that cancers can\u00a0sometimes\u00a0pop up suddenly, even among recipients of the most sophisticated care doctors can offer.<\/p>\n

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Opinion: I\u2019ve reported on presidents\u2019 health for 53 years. No public evidence suggests Biden\u2019s doctors mishandled prostate cancer testing News of former\u00a0President Biden\u2019s aggressive and incurable prostate cancer\u00a0has surprised the public (and presumably him). Based on the public record of Biden\u2019s medical care and standard medical recommendations, as recently as a year ago there was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2159,2143,2715,2144],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-3934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancer","category-first-opinion","category-joe-biden","category-politics","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3934"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}