1 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:05,880 Speaker 1: Welcome to Wellness on Mass I'm doctor Nicole Sapphire and 2 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:08,680 Speaker 1: this is your weekly rundown. Well, unless you've been living 3 00:00:08,680 --> 00:00:11,440 Speaker 1: in a whole, you've probably heard Former President Biden has 4 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:14,960 Speaker 1: been diagnosed with an aggressive, late stage prosday cancer. We 5 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:17,120 Speaker 1: don't have all the information and there's still a lot 6 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:20,400 Speaker 1: of questions, but some people are starting to wonder was 7 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:23,720 Speaker 1: this cancer diagnosis missed by the White House position or 8 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:25,919 Speaker 1: did they know about the cancer and they withheld the 9 00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:29,160 Speaker 1: diagnosis from the American public. It's not really a stretch 10 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:32,320 Speaker 1: considering how they withheld the cognitive decline over the course 11 00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:35,120 Speaker 1: of his administration. So I decided to do a deep 12 00:00:35,159 --> 00:00:38,879 Speaker 1: dive into his cancer screening history, but also his prostay 13 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:42,040 Speaker 1: health history as well. This is what I've come up with. First, 14 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:45,159 Speaker 1: I should know that the Biden spokesperson came out and 15 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:47,760 Speaker 1: said the last time that they screened for prostay cancer 16 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:52,400 Speaker 1: in former President Biden was twenty fourteen, and therefore he 17 00:00:52,479 --> 00:00:55,160 Speaker 1: wasn't being screened, so therefore they didn't miss it. Well, 18 00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:59,960 Speaker 1: while we do recommend stopping cancer screenings after a certain age, 19 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:02,960 Speaker 1: there's not an immediate cutoff, but the reality is you 20 00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:06,039 Speaker 1: kind of look at someone's life expectancy and decide whether 21 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:08,360 Speaker 1: or not you want to keep screening for cancer if 22 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:11,840 Speaker 1: there really is a benefit to it. Why this doesn't 23 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:15,000 Speaker 1: hass my sniff test is the fact that Okay, so 24 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:17,480 Speaker 1: they say that they stopped screening him for prostay cancer 25 00:01:17,520 --> 00:01:20,000 Speaker 1: in twenty fourteen, but yet in twenty twenty one he 26 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:23,440 Speaker 1: had a colonoscopy for colon cancer screening. And by the way, 27 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:27,920 Speaker 1: prostay cancer is more common in older men than colon cancer, 28 00:01:27,959 --> 00:01:30,080 Speaker 1: So why are you screening him for colon cancer but 29 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:32,640 Speaker 1: not prostate cancer. That doesn't make sense to me. He 30 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:35,840 Speaker 1: was also getting annual skin checks for skin cancer screening, 31 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:40,480 Speaker 1: so he was still doing cancer screening up until he 32 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:42,720 Speaker 1: was eighty two. So don't tell me you decided to 33 00:01:42,959 --> 00:01:46,800 Speaker 1: stop screening him in twenty fourteen before he was even president. 34 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:50,520 Speaker 1: I don't buy that. In twenty nineteen, Biden's physician said 35 00:01:50,560 --> 00:01:53,320 Speaker 1: that he was being treated for BPH, also known as 36 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:58,320 Speaker 1: benign prostatic hyperplasia. This is completely benign. It's when cells 37 00:01:58,440 --> 00:02:02,160 Speaker 1: kind of grow in your pross date but you haven't. 38 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:04,800 Speaker 1: It's not cancerous. It's all completely benign, but it can 39 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:07,520 Speaker 1: raise your PSA levels. So how did they know he 40 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:11,120 Speaker 1: had BPH, Well, he probably had some symptoms, commonly urinary 41 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:14,160 Speaker 1: frequency getting up during the night, or maybe they saw 42 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:16,520 Speaker 1: it on a PSA screening they saw that as PSA 43 00:02:16,639 --> 00:02:20,160 Speaker 1: level went up. Well, when you have a high PSA level, 44 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:22,680 Speaker 1: you obviously want to make sure that there's no cancer there. 45 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:25,040 Speaker 1: So didn't he have a workup? Did he have an 46 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:27,840 Speaker 1: MRI of his prostate? Did they do a physical exam? 47 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:30,240 Speaker 1: Did they check for nodules at that time? I'm going 48 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:33,000 Speaker 1: to say they probably did. I mean he was running 49 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:36,440 Speaker 1: for president, of course they did. So that tells me 50 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:39,920 Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen he probably didn't have prostate cancer because 51 00:02:39,919 --> 00:02:41,800 Speaker 1: I'm going to assume that he got the full workup 52 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:45,280 Speaker 1: because he's VIP. Let's be honest. They said he was 53 00:02:45,320 --> 00:02:47,200 Speaker 1: being treated for it. How is he being treated? He 54 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:51,200 Speaker 1: was probably given a medication. Those medications that treat BPH 55 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:54,919 Speaker 1: can lower your PSA levels, So if he was getting 56 00:02:54,919 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 1: subsequent PSA levels after that screening for prostate cancer, it's 57 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:02,800 Speaker 1: possible that that medication he was taking gave false negatives, 58 00:03:02,919 --> 00:03:06,000 Speaker 1: meaning cancer was starting to grow, but his PSA levels 59 00:03:06,040 --> 00:03:08,880 Speaker 1: were low from the medication he was on for the BPH, 60 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:11,919 Speaker 1: so they didn't see the rise in PSA, so it's 61 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:15,040 Speaker 1: possible they missed it. He probably wasn't getting a physical 62 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:17,799 Speaker 1: exam to check for those nodules on the prostate, because 63 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:20,200 Speaker 1: any man can tell you no one likes to have 64 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:23,320 Speaker 1: this physical exam. It's a rectal exam and it's uncomfortable. 65 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:25,280 Speaker 1: So a lot of men opt out of having the 66 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:28,160 Speaker 1: physical exam and just going with the blood test. But again, 67 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:31,800 Speaker 1: he was on a medication that could lower his PSA level, 68 00:03:31,919 --> 00:03:35,040 Speaker 1: giving him a false negative. So it is possible that 69 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:38,480 Speaker 1: the cancer began growing and they missed it. So now 70 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:41,120 Speaker 1: the other question is did they know about his cancer 71 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:44,560 Speaker 1: and they just didn't disclose it to the American public. Well, 72 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:47,440 Speaker 1: that's also possible. It is highly likely that the cancer 73 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:50,160 Speaker 1: developed while he was in the White House. I doubt 74 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:52,480 Speaker 1: it was there in twenty nineteen, but I bet it 75 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:55,160 Speaker 1: was there sometime in the White House. When did it start, 76 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:58,080 Speaker 1: I don't know. When did it metastasize to the bones? 77 00:03:58,280 --> 00:03:59,880 Speaker 1: I don't know either, But I can tell you that 78 00:03:59,920 --> 00:04:03,520 Speaker 1: he had multiple MRIs of his spine and hip throughout 79 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:06,280 Speaker 1: the course of his presidency. Now, they never said specifically 80 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:09,600 Speaker 1: he had those MRIs. They just said that his degenerative 81 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:12,440 Speaker 1: change of the spine stayed the same, but there was 82 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:14,960 Speaker 1: no nerve root compression. And the way that we look 83 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:18,000 Speaker 1: for nerve root compression is with an MRI. If he 84 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:21,600 Speaker 1: had metastatic lesions from prostate cancer in his spine or 85 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:24,200 Speaker 1: in his hip, and he had these MRIs, we would 86 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:26,599 Speaker 1: have seen them, or else I would hope that radiologists 87 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:28,159 Speaker 1: picked it up, or else I'm going to have a 88 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:32,160 Speaker 1: serious conversation with who's reading the president's films. So my 89 00:04:32,279 --> 00:04:36,240 Speaker 1: guess is he probably didn't have metastatic disease as late 90 00:04:36,279 --> 00:04:39,560 Speaker 1: as twenty twenty four, because that's the last time we 91 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:43,960 Speaker 1: heard about his degenerative disease of his spine February twenty 92 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:47,880 Speaker 1: twenty four, but imaging that he did have after that. 93 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:51,200 Speaker 1: He got COVID in July twenty twenty four. Now, while 94 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:54,000 Speaker 1: you a ct chest is not indicated for people who 95 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:57,320 Speaker 1: get COVID, he probably had a ct chest because again 96 00:04:57,400 --> 00:04:58,880 Speaker 1: he was the president, and you lay out the red 97 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:01,320 Speaker 1: carpet and in fact at a CT chess in the past, 98 00:05:01,440 --> 00:05:04,159 Speaker 1: as did President Trump when he had COVID, just to 99 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:06,960 Speaker 1: make sure that the lungs look okay. Did they see 100 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:11,120 Speaker 1: something on that ctchess, because the ctchess includes the thoracic spine. 101 00:05:11,560 --> 00:05:14,360 Speaker 1: Did they see any lesions in his spine that would 102 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:18,679 Speaker 1: indicate an aggressive or an advanced cancer diagnosis. He dropped 103 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 1: out of the presidential race about a week later, so 104 00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:24,240 Speaker 1: maybe that's the time that they had an inclination that 105 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:27,960 Speaker 1: there was advanced disease going on. I don't know, obviously, 106 00:05:28,279 --> 00:05:30,880 Speaker 1: we don't have that information. All we heard was that 107 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:33,200 Speaker 1: in the last week he presented with symptoms, they found 108 00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:37,440 Speaker 1: a hard nodule and then quickly they diagnosed him with 109 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:40,360 Speaker 1: not only an aggressive prostate cancer, but one that metastasized 110 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:43,120 Speaker 1: to the bone. They didn't tell us how they diagnosed that, 111 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:47,320 Speaker 1: so I don't know. So my take is I doubt 112 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:49,640 Speaker 1: he had prostate cancer in twenty nineteen because he had 113 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:52,880 Speaker 1: the BPH workup at that time and they probably would 114 00:05:52,960 --> 00:05:55,920 Speaker 1: have or should have found prostate cancer at that time. 115 00:05:56,160 --> 00:05:58,800 Speaker 1: It's likely that it began forming while he was in 116 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:01,880 Speaker 1: the White House. It's quite aggressive, so it's probably been 117 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:04,880 Speaker 1: within the last couple of years, and it's unlikely he 118 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:08,960 Speaker 1: had metastatic disease of the spine at least through his 119 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:11,880 Speaker 1: MRIs from February twenty twenty four. I do wonder if 120 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:14,520 Speaker 1: they saw something July twenty twenty four. But at the 121 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:17,279 Speaker 1: end of the day, our President Biden has an aggressive, 122 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:21,480 Speaker 1: very late stage prostate cancer, and good news is there 123 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:23,520 Speaker 1: are some treatments for him, but he'll never be cured 124 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:26,000 Speaker 1: from it. All we can hope is that he isn't 125 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:28,880 Speaker 1: suffering from the intense bone pain that can come from it, 126 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:31,200 Speaker 1: and that he's able to take some time to relax 127 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:33,560 Speaker 1: spend it with his family. And I just hope that 128 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:36,760 Speaker 1: they are being fully transparent with the American people, unlike 129 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:40,080 Speaker 1: how they were with his cognitive decline. 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