Joe Biden’s cancer battle is changing what he can do each day. Ahead of his memoir’s release, the former president says illness has left him facing limits,
even as doctors remain encouraged. With fewer public appearances now planned, his message brings together gratitude, painful honesty
and a father’s enduring advice as he faces another deeply personal test of res… Continues…
Former President Joe Biden says prostate cancer will prevent him from holding as many conversations about his upcoming memoir,
Promise Me, America, as he had hoped. In a Sunday post on X, he described an uneven daily reality: “Some days are better than others.”
He said his doctors remain encouraged by his response to treatment and thanked those whose prayers and kindness have supported him,
Jill and their family. The book, due November 17, reflects on his presidency from 2021 to 2025.
Biden announced his diagnosis in May 2025, when his office said the cancer had spread to his bones but was hormone-sensitive.
He completed radiation treatment that October. For a family that lost Beau Biden to brain cancer in 2015, the illness carries particular heartbreak.
Yet Biden closed with his father’s words: “Champ, when you get knocked down, get up”—a lesson he offered to himself and the country.
