Biden completes a round of radiation therapy as part of his prostate cancer treatment

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE WASHINGTON AP Former President Joe Biden on Monday completed a round of radiation therapy recovery for the aggressive form of prostate cancer he was diagnosed with after leaving office a spokesperson announced Related Articles Personnel charge more persons with attack on prominent DOGE employee North Carolina GOP advances congressional map to secure another House seat for Trump Cabinet shutdown means plenty of CDC experts are skipping a pivotal meeting on infectious illness Trump draws outrage for AI video of himself dumping waste on protestors The White House starts demolishing part of the East Wing to build Trump s ballroom Biden had been receiving healing at Penn Medicine Radiation Oncology in Philadelphia noted aide Kelly Scully The -year-old Democrat left office in January six months after he dropped his bid for reelection following a disastrous debate against Republican Donald Trump amid concerns about Biden s age healthcare and mental fitness Trump defeated Democrat Kamala Harris who was Biden s vice president In May Biden s postpresidential office released that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer and that it had spread to his bones The discovery came after he revealed urinary characteristics Prostate cancers are graded for aggressiveness using what is known as a Gleason outcome The scores range from to with and prostate cancers behaving more aggressively Biden s office disclosed his number was suggesting his cancer is among the greater part aggressive Last month Biden had surgery to remove skin cancer lesions from his forehead