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Biden's office announced his illness Sunday afternoon.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

This morning while driving to work I heard on NPR that doctors recommend screenings for people between 50 and 60 years of age. The guy said that older people like 70's and 80's have more problems and I missed exactly what the reasoning other than aggravating them with one more problem was for not screening that group actively.

But you and I know. Its simple! 50 and 60 year olds are still working do they got money. 80 year olds don't have money. No reason to screen them. Sure the treatments work...kinda sorta. But the treatments are expensive. So if you're 80 its not important that they find your cancer because they can't make money from you. If you're well to do, then sure, we can try our methods. But if you got no money, there's no point. What are you going to do anyway with no job and no money. Even if you could pay, then what? Sell the car and house and live on the streets? Would that be worse? Not really the doctors don't care if they got paid. Its all about the money.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It is more of a matter that the treatments at around 70+ can be worse than not doing anything. You can get impotence, incontinence (bowel and/or urinary), etc. The older you get the harder the treatments (surgery, hormone therapy, radiation, chemo) hit you. Early signs of prostate cancer, like PSA levels, are generally very slow to develop and you'll likely have other major issues before the prostate becomes an issue.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago (1 children)

My MAGA father-in-law also has prostate cancer. I bet dollar to donut he's going to be positively giddy hearing this news.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 days ago (4 children)

God, thats fucking terrible. We put him through the riger the last couple years & now this? This is the worst timeline.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 days ago

I don't know about you, but I wanted him to stop working when he was 74 and enjoy the rest of his life with his family like people should be allowed to do much younger than that, not start working again at 78.

I have absolutely no guilt over what happened at the tail end of his presidency, I tried to keep him from being in that position at all.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Crazy, my dad was just diagnosed with the same cancer a few days ago. Not as aggressive, but on the higher end of the Gleason score. Hoping biden continues to live a long and healthy life

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)

This is sad. Taking into account of how he was treated by the DNC and how 2024 went down, this is just the shit cherry on the shit sundae.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It is sad, but the DNC should never have run him for 2024.

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