“Last week, President Joe Biden was seen for a new finding of a prostate nodule after experiencing increasing urinary symptoms,” his personal office said in a statement. “On Friday he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, characterized by a Gleason score of 9 (Grade Group 5) with metastasis to the bone.”

Cancer touches almost everyone eventually.

Some doctors have expressed surprise that the aggressive form of cancer, which has spread to his bones, had not been detected earlier.