Former President Biden expressed gratitude Monday morning for the outpouring of assist following the information of his prostate most cancers prognosis over the weekend.
“Cancer touches us all. Like so many of you, Jill and I have learned that we are strongest in the broken places,” Biden, 82, wrote Monday morning in a put up on the social media platform X, together with a photograph of him, former first woman Jill Biden and their cat, Willow.
“Thank you for lifting us up with love and support.”
A Biden spokesperson confirmed on Sunday that the previous president has an aggressive type of prostate most cancers that was found Friday “after experiencing increasing urinary symptoms,” including that it has unfold to his bones.
As information of his most cancers prognosis unfold, Biden’s allies and rivals posted effectively needs and tributes throughout social media.
President Trump, who Biden beat within the 2020 election, wrote on Reality Social: “Melania and I are saddened to hear about Joe Biden’s recent medical diagnosis. We extend our warmest and best wishes to Jill and the family, and we wish Joe a fast and successful recovery.”
Former President Obama, whom Biden served as vp beneath for eight years, voiced confidence in Biden’s “trademark resolve and grace.”
“Nobody has done more to find breakthrough treatments for cancer in all its forms than Joe, and I am certain he will fight this challenge with his trademark resolve and grace,” Obama wrote in a put up on X.
Biden, who spent many years in elected workplace earlier than he left the White Home in January after abruptly calling off his reelection marketing campaign, had just lately begun to step again into the highlight with high-profile interviews on the BBC and ABC’s “The View.”
In the meantime, a brand new guide due out this week has thrust him again into the information with questions on his well being whereas he was in workplace and preliminary determination to run for one more time period.
Biden’s oldest son, Beau Biden, who the previous president hoped would sooner or later be elected to the White Home, died at 46 a decade in the past from glioblastoma, an aggressive type of mind most cancers.
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