A diagnosis of prostate cancer is a kick in the proverbial slats. Really. You don’t want to hear the word, “cancer,” at all…anytime…ever. But if you’re male, the best time to hear it is after a blood test comes back with your PSA number unusually elevated. The PSA number isn’t in and of itself a diagnosis, but it gets your attention. Nobody wants to hear that there is a strong likelihood they’ve got cancer, but a high PSA number means that if you’ve got cancer, it’s down there , which lightens the diagnosis considerably. Joe Biden ’s office announced on Sunday that he had been diagnosed with stage four prostate cancer on Friday. They did not provide many details beyond that, other than to say the cancer had spread from the prostate to nearby bones.

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