Former President Joe Biden’s office says his “last known” prostate cancer screening was in 2014, and he had never been diagnosed with the disease before last week

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Bullshit.

    There’s a blood test and he was just president for four fucking years.

    If I can get any blood work I want from the VA without any hassle, then the president of America was 100% having every test run, especially when he was in his 80s.

    This is a trump level lie, there’s no fucking way he wasn’t getting the blood test, it’s complicately implausible that they decided to skip it.

    They fucking knew.

    Edit:

    Screening with PSA blood tests can lead to unnecessary treatment with side effects that affect quality of life, and guidelines recommend against prostate cancer screening for men 70 and older. Biden is 82.

    It’s not recommended over 70 because you’re so old and frail that if you get it you’re better off dying from it than the treatment…

    But Schrodinger’s Biden was both healthy enough to be president, but not worried enough to get screened for a deadly cancer that on a long enough timeline every man will get?

    it can’t logically be both, if he was a freak abnormality and as healthy as they kept saying he was, his doctors would have kept doing the blood test.

    There’s no negatives from the test, just the treatment if you have cancer.

    Like, this is fucking insane

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      10 hours ago

      These are the people you’ll be expected to get behind, and support their losing strategy in 2026 and 2028, other wise you’ll be called a traitor, or any of the other things we’ve been called here.