Skip to content News Health & Medicine Biden’s prostate cancer is incurable, but it is treatable The former president’s diagnosis raises awareness of the most common cancer among U.S. men "Cancer touches us all,” former U.S. President Joe Biden posted on X. He shared this picture of himself with wife Jill Biden and their cat, Willow, after it was revealed he’s been diagnosed with prostate cancer that has spread to the bone. @JoeBiden By Meghan Rosen 5 hours ago With Joe Biden’s recent diagnosis of an aggressive form of prostate cancer, the former U.S. president joins a growing group of people newly coping with the disease. Biden, 82, represents one of more than 300,000 new cases of prostate cancer estimated to occur in the United States in 2025. And the incidence of this disease, the most common cancer in males, is rising. From 2017 to 2021, the incidence of prostate cancer increased about 3 percent per year, researchers reported in the Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer released April 21. Sign up for our newsletter We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.