Tufts Medical Center doctor breaks down Biden’s cancer diagnosis

Following the announcement of former President Joe Biden s prostate cancer evaluation Dr Tony Luongo at Tufts Medicinal Center explained what it could mean for the -year-old politician Prostate cancers are given a number called a Gleason figure on a scale of one to Biden s outcome came back as a nine meaning he has a very aggressive form of cancer The Gleason count is a tally we use to categorize the danger of affection The higher the amount is the more aggressive the cancer is It s a sum from one to and being a nine out of clearly indicates quite a high pitfall of an aggressive cancer Luongo reported The former president s office commented cancer cells have spread to Biden s bones Luongo announced cancer that spreads is harder to treat than localized cancer as it can be more hard for drugs to reach all of the tumors and utterly root out the infection Biden s office commented his cancer appears to be hormone-sensitive Doctors say certain hormone therapies could be helpful in this situation Testosterone we regard it as the fuel of prostate cancer and therapies that block its activity and or its production is maybe the largest part common form of healing we give for this stage of infection Luongo announced Diagnostic experts say Biden is of what is considered advanced age but a person s cancer prognosis mainly depends on the individual s physical fitness Does the case have any other substantial medicinal problems we call comorbidities such as heart affection respiratory ailment neurologic disorders that can impact our medicine decision Luongo disclosed Luongo explained he is confident the former president s physicians will make the right choice for his healing plan Unfortunately it is a noncurative complaint but we have effective treatments that can treat it and control the progression of the illness he disclosed