Former President Joe Biden’s advanced prostate cancer diagnosis has generated several estimates of how long he could live ― and some suggest his cancer could have cut short his term in office had he been reelected.
The 82-year-old’s cancer has spread to the bone, meaning it is metastatic and more severe because it is not localized.
Dr. Matthew Smith of Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, who has led a research program on prostate cancer survivorship, told the Associated Press that men can anticipate to live with metastatic prostate cancer for four or five years.
Dr. Sandy Srinivas, a medical oncologist at Stanford, had a similar take. Srinivas confirmed to ABC News in the Bay Area that while Biden’s condition is incurable, living another four or five years wouldn’t be out of the ordinary.
Dr. Herbert Lepor, who specializes in urologic oncology at NYU Langone, offered a more optimistic range. He told Reuters that even patients with metastatic prostate cancer can survive “five to 10 years and beyond.”
