Former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, according to a statement from his office released Sunday afternoon.

House Republicans want to hear from former President Joe Biden’s doctor and four key aides to discuss his mental and physical decline — after the ex-president, 82, revealed Sunday that he has prostate cancer ahead of the Tuesday release of a bombshell book on the concealment of his waning mental faculties as he sought re-election last year.

The former US president’s office said his "last known" prostate cancer screening was in 2014 amid speculation that he had been hiding his diagnosis. View on euronews

The revelation of former President Joe Biden’s cancer diagnosis has seemed to halt the ongoing debate over his fitness for office. But the co-author of the new book “Original Sin” tells Variety that conversation is fair,

Joe and Jill Biden are likely stung by the backlash that’s come their way after the former president’s revelation over the weekend that he is battling prostate cancer — including calls for the former first lady to be slapped with “elder abuse” charges,