Former first lady Jill Biden gave a bleak update on her husband\u2019s cancer\u00a0battle \u2014 admitting that the 83-year-old former president has \u201cslowed down\u201d from the heavy toll of treatment for the disease he will be stricken with \u201cfor the rest of his life.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s stage four<\/a>, and it has metastasized to his bones.\u00a0So that puts things on a whole different level,\u201d the former first lady said of her husband, former President Joe Biden<\/a>, and his incurable prostate cancer.<\/p>\n \u201cI mean, Joe will have to live with cancer for the rest of his life, which means he\u2019s on special medicines,\u201d she told \u201cThe View\u201d co-host Ana Navarro\u00a0during a book event<\/a>\u00a0covered by\u00a0Fox News.<\/a><\/p>\n President Joe Biden embraces first lady Jill Biden after his presidential debate against President Donald Trump on June 27, 2024. Getty Images<\/p>\n Observers\u00a0had questioned why the 46th president\u2019s cancer wasn\u2019t caught during his time in the White House, and his\u00a0team revealed that he stopped getting blood tests for prostate cancer around 2014 because of his age.<\/p>\n The former first lady shed light on how it was discovered, recounting\u00a0how she observed her husband using the bathroom about seven times each night\u00a0while still president.\u00a0Yet he\u00a0only\u00a0saw a urologist once he left the White House.<\/p>\n \u201cI never imagined it would be prostate cancer,\u201d Jill reflected.\u00a0\u201cI just never imagined it.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYou know, it takes a toll,\u201d the former first lady explained about\u00a0its\u00a0impact on him.\u00a0\u201cHe keeps his schedule, but he\u2019s slowed down.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Jill Biden appeared on \u201cThe View\u201d and gave an update on ex-President Joe Biden\u2019s cancer diagnosis on June 2, 2026. The View\/YouTube<\/p>\n \u201cI mean, stage four cancer\u00a0is\u00a0\u2014 and he\u2019s 83 \u2014 so, I think the mix of everything and the medications that he\u2019s taken has made life a little more difficult these days.\u201d<\/p>\n The former first lady, who has been promoting her new book, \u201cView From the East Wing: A Memoir,\u201d<\/a> has been forced to reckon with questions about her husband\u2019s health and the debate that gripped the Democratic Party in 2024 about whether he was fit for another term in office due to his age.<\/p>\n