Joe Biden’s prostate cancer has spread, and the former president is dealing with pain that his son Hunter Biden described as “debilitating,” according to comments he made to the BBC Friday. The update adds a grim new layer to the former president’s health battle, months after he disclosed a stage four diagnosis.
Hunter Biden said the cancer has moved into his bones and “further,” and called the condition “very painful” and “very debilitating in many respects.” Biden, eighty-three, first announced in May 2024 that he had been diagnosed with stage four prostate cancer. Even with that diagnosis, he has continued to appear in public, including at a Maryland Democrats gala near Baltimore in late June and at the opening of the new Obama library in Chicago earlier in June.
His appearance in Chicago drew attention when he approached a lectern afterward and asked, “Where’s my granddaughter?” That moment, along with his late-June event with Maryland Democrats, showed that he remains visible in political circles even as questions about his health continue to follow him. The latest comments from Hunter Biden put a sharper focus on the personal side of that public presence.
Hunter Biden, fifty-six, also said his father is still occasionally active and “out there.” He added that his father “still does his thing” and “so believes in this country.” Those remarks framed the former president not only as a political figure, but as a man trying to stay engaged despite a serious illness.
