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0:01	Source: BBC Radio Four Today Programme, May 7 2025
0:15	Source : File
0:38	Source : June 27, 2024
0:56	Joe Biden | Former US President | July 5, 2024
2:10	 Report  | Alex Forrest Whiting

((info: The former US President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with an 'aggressive' form of prostate cancer. The 82-year-old was diagnosed after suffering urinary symptoms. Aides say that while the cancer is aggressive, it should be manageable. Biden's health was one of the main concerns for voters during his time in office, and in last year's election campaign before he stood down.))

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Source: BBC Radio Four Today Programme
May 7 2025
In the past few weeks, Joe Biden has been back in the spotlight - 
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defending his legacy.

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But yet again it's his health that everyone's talking about.

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FILE (Biden with wife as she honours him.)

The former US president has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer which has spread to his bones. 

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During his one-term presidency, questions over his health, and in particular his physical and mental decline, only grew.

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UPSOT FROM DEBATE - stumbling
June 27, 2024

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(TV debate stills)
His poor performace during a TV debate with 
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Donald Trump last summer left even his biggest supporters concerned. 

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 (FILE - JULY 5, 2024) 
159. (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. PRESIDENT, JOE BIDEN, SAYING:
    "I'm not letting one 90 minute debate wipe out three and a half years of work."

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But that debate sealed his fate...
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"I need to unite my party in this critical endeavour"
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 and he withdrew his candidacy for last November's election.

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Now just four months after leaving office, Biden is fighting a disease that he knows only too well. 

01:21 (still of him with beau plus funeral)
His son Beau died of brain cancer in 2015.

01:28 (with obama)
After that tragedy, finding a cancer cure became essential to Joe Biden as he - as Barack Obama's vice president - led government-wide research to do just that.

(Obama tweet) 
'Nobody has done more to find breakthrough treatments for cancer is all its forms', wrote Obama in a social media post on learning about Joe Biden's prostate cancer.

01:55 (Trump and Biden pix) 
Current president, Donald Trump, 

01:58 (Social media post) 
has also wished Biden a fast and full recovery.

02:04 (Biden on stage with daughter at Dem Convention 24)
That's unlikely given that Biden's cancer is incurable, say doctors. 

But it can be managed, according to a spokesperson.

Just the latest challenge Biden now faces.

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