Dr. Celine Gounder: Biden’s Aggressive Prostate Cancer Went Undetected Because He’s Too Old and They Stopped Screening

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GOUNDER: "Yeah, so, it depends on the kind of cancer you’re talking about here. We do know it’s quite aggressive again, so the time in which it would take to spread to the bones is going to be shorter than with a less aggressive cancer. And he’s 82. Normally doctors will stop screening for prostate cancer at 75 or so because after that, the prostate cancers you typically pick up are very slow-growing and so the harms of all of the testing and treatment or something that may not kill you, you know, you’re talking about risk versus benefit, it may not be worth the risk."