# Joe Biden diagnosed with Prostate Cancer **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** breaking-news\ **Created:** [May 18, 2025, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-biden-diagnosed-with-prostate-cancer/1018513 "2025-05-18T20:29:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 55
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2025, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-biden-diagnosed-with-prostate-cancer/1018513/55 "2025-05-19T19:48:33Z")
For any men (or spouses of men) in the thread just waking up to the ideas around prostate cancer, we’ve had threads and threads on various aspects of the topic. This particular one started as one guy’s story about his journey and sort of morphed into the omnibus thread on “I’ve been diagnosed, what now?” and the whole rest of the follow-up. Lotta good background there for anyone dealing with PC, whether as the guest of honor or as the SO. > [@So I have prostate cancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-have-prostate-cancer/804035): > > Just diagnosed. T1c, gleason 7 (3+4). It’s apparently contained so I’m told very curable. However, treatment can (note the qualifier) leave a man permanently impotent and can cause permanent urinary incontinence. In fact as I understand it, you get both for sure then maybe recover. Or not. Obviously I need to find a surgeon (if I do surgery) or oncologist (if I opt for radiation instead) with a lot of experience and a track record of good outcomes. I have no idea how I’m going to do that. I’m g… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-biden-diagnosed-with-prostate-cancer/1018513)._