Former President Joe Biden said in an interview published Wednesday that he did not hide his aggressive stage 4 prostate cancer diagnosis while he was in the White House, according to a report by The Hill.
According to the summary of that report, Biden also said he would not have sought a second term had he been diagnosed early. The summary says People magazine released the interview with the 46th president ahead of the release of, but the text is cut off, so the summary does not say what that release was.
Fox News reported that Biden responded to critics who accused him of hiding his stage 4 prostate cancer diagnosis from the public in his new book, "Promise Me, America." The Fox News summary does not describe what Biden said in that response. Its timestamp shows publication on November 10, 2026, one day before The Hill's report.
The two accounts differ in emphasis. The Hill's summary states that Biden said he did not hide the diagnosis, while the Fox News summary describes his response to critics without stating its content. Neither summary gives a full account of the accusations, so the criticism is described only in general terms.
The Hill credits its report to Ryan Mancini. The Fox News summary lists no author. Both summaries describe the diagnosis as stage 4 prostate cancer, and the sources reviewed here provide no further medical details.
Sources: Fox News: Joe Biden addresses critics who said he hid his stage 4 cancer diagnosis in upcoming memoir; The Hill: Biden says he didn’t hide cancer diagnosis while president.