Joe Nocera, Free Press - Is it really plausible that the former president could have discovered less than a year after his last physical in February 2024—with his doctors pronouncing him “fit for duty”—that his cancer had metastasized to his bones? As Dr. Steven Quay, a cancer doctor who runs Atossa Therapeutics in Seattle, told me: “The statistics are very clear. There is a 1-to-2 percent probability that you could have a normal prostate exam in 2024 and metastatic prostate cancer by May 2025.” The other 98 percent of the time, he added, “it takes at least five to seven years” for that to happen.
Quay also pointed out that although many of Biden’s test results were released after his annual physical, his prostate-specific antigen test—more commonly known as a PSA test—was never released. When I pointed out that many men are advised that they no longer need to take PSA exams after they turn 70, Quay scoffed.
“I don’t think it’s credible to imagine that the physicians of the president of the United States were not looking for the most common cancer in men,” he replied. “That’s what makes me wonder whether there was a cover-up.”
Dr. Mark Scholz, a prostate cancer specialist, went even further. “The scenario being described is something you might encounter in a third world nation. For someone to have metastatic prostate cancer means one of two things. Either, the doctors in charge of Joe Biden’s healthcare were not checking his PSA levels, in which case they were perhaps the most incompetent doctors on the face of the earth. Or they were taking his PSA levels all along, and therefore, the diagnosis of prostate cancer has been on the radar of his physicians for years, and no one told us about it. Is it incompetence? Or deception? There’s nothing else that can explain what we’re dealing with.”
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