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Dr. Drew Gives Eye-Opening Take On Biden’s ‘Sudden’ Diagnosis: ‘Doesn’t Work Like This’
Dr. Drew, the celebrity physician whose syndicated radio show is heard by millions each day, has his own theory about former President Joe Biden’s “sudden” cancer diagnosis.
Overnight occurrences of prostate cancer, the diagnosis that Biden’s personal physician announced on Sunday, don’t just happen in modern medicine. And the good doctor, whose full name is David Drew Pinsky, knows from personal experience.
“I have prostate cancer. I had a prostatectomy 12 years ago. I’ve helped patients with prostate cancer for 40 years. If caught early, it is very treatable,” he wrote on social media, sharing a clip from his recent show. “So this story about doctors finding a nodule & suddenly President Biden has metastatic disease? It doesn’t pass the sniff test.”
Calling prostate cancer a “highly treatable condition,” Dr. Drew disagreed with claims by other medical experts that Biden did not qualify for PSA tests, which detect signs of prostate cancer in the bloodstream. At 82, Biden was too old for the test to be conclusive, Nicole Saphier, a radiologist and contributor at Fox News, claimed recently.
“I disagree with that in the strongest terms,” Dr. Drew said. “I know there’s a little controversy around that, but the President of the United States is going to get a yearly PSA. That’s just what’s gonna happen.”
“Then, the fact that they said they found a nodule… We don’t even really do the digital rectal exams anymore, we follow the PSA.”
Responding to doubts raised by conservative influencer Matt Walsh about the timing of Biden’s cancer announcement, Dr. Drew replied, “I’m telling you clinically, it does not work like this. It just doesn’t show up like that all of a sudden.”
“About two percent of the time, to about four percent, it can present in a more advanced state, but usually it’s an aggressive tumor that kind of gets away from you over the course of a year or two years.”
Dr. Drew’s prostate cancer scored a 6 on the Gleason scale, putting him on active surveillance. But that apparently wasn’t done for Biden, despite him presenting last week with a Gleason score of 9 out of 10.
“The point is, they’re being extremely obscure and not giving us the details and none of what they’re saying really makes sense,” he added.
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Biden’s diagnosis was announced by Dr. Kevin O’Connor, the former president’s longtime physician, whose affinity and familial relationship with the Bidens have raised questions about his ability to share timely and accurate health news. He served as Biden’s doctor in the Obama administration and remained with him after he left the White House, returning in 2021 as the president’s top doctor.
It was in February 2024, four months before Biden’s disastrous debate, when O’Connor gave Biden a clean bill of health and declared him “fit for duty.”
“He’s part of the Biden family,” Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX) told the NY Post about O’Connor last month. “He would do or say anything to cover up and protect that family, regardless of what it meant professionally for him.”
President Trump echoed those concerns during an event on Monday.
“If it’s the same doctor that said there’s nothing wrong there, and that’s being proven to be a very sad situation,” Trump told reporters, “I think someone is going to have to speak to his doctor.”
“It takes a long time to get to that situation … to get to a stage nine. I think that if you take a look, it’s the same doctor that said that Joe was cognitively fine. There was nothing wrong with him,” he added.
