Wellness Unmasked Weekly Rundown: The Timeline and Implications of Biden's Prostate Cancer Diagnosis

Dr. Nicole Saphier discusses former President Biden's recent diagnosis of aggressive late-stage prostate cancer. She questions the White House's transparency regarding Biden's health, particularly the inconsistency in his cancer screening history. Dr. Saphier examines Biden's past treatments for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) and the potential for missed diagnoses. She speculates on the timeline of the cancer's development and the implications of Biden's medical evaluations. Wellness Unmasked is part of the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Podcast Network - new episodes debut every Tuesday & Friday. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome to Wellness on Mass I'm doctor Nicole Sapphire and
this is your weekly rundown. Well, unless you've been living
in a whole, you've probably heard Former President Biden has
been diagnosed with an aggressive, late stage prosday cancer. We
don't have all the information and there's still a lot
of questions, but some people are starting to wonder was
this cancer diagnosis missed by the White House position or

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did they know about the cancer and they withheld the
diagnosis from the American public. It's not really a stretch
considering how they withheld the cognitive decline over the course
of his administration. So I decided to do a deep
dive into his cancer screening history, but also his prostay
health history as well. This is what I've come up with. First,
I should know that the Biden spokesperson came out and

(00:45):
said the last time that they screened for prostay cancer
in former President Biden was twenty fourteen, and therefore he
wasn't being screened, so therefore they didn't miss it. Well,
while we do recommend stopping cancer screenings after a certain age,
there's not an immediate cutoff, but the reality is you
kind of look at someone's life expectancy and decide whether

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or not you want to keep screening for cancer if
there really is a benefit to it. Why this doesn't
hass my sniff test is the fact that Okay, so
they say that they stopped screening him for prostay cancer
in twenty fourteen, but yet in twenty twenty one he
had a colonoscopy for colon cancer screening. And by the way,
prostay cancer is more common in older men than colon cancer,

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So why are you screening him for colon cancer but
not prostate cancer. That doesn't make sense to me. He
was also getting annual skin checks for skin cancer screening,
so he was still doing cancer screening up until he
was eighty two. So don't tell me you decided to
stop screening him in twenty fourteen before he was even president.
I don't buy that. In twenty nineteen, Biden's physician said

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that he was being treated for BPH, also known as
benign prostatic hyperplasia. This is completely benign. It's when cells
kind of grow in your pross date but you haven't.
It's not cancerous. It's all completely benign, but it can
raise your PSA levels. So how did they know he
had BPH, Well, he probably had some symptoms, commonly urinary

(02:11):
frequency getting up during the night, or maybe they saw
it on a PSA screening they saw that as PSA
level went up. Well, when you have a high PSA level,
you obviously want to make sure that there's no cancer there.
So didn't he have a workup? Did he have an
MRI of his prostate? Did they do a physical exam?
Did they check for nodules at that time? I'm going
to say they probably did. I mean he was running

(02:33):
for president, of course they did. So that tells me
in twenty nineteen he probably didn't have prostate cancer because
I'm going to assume that he got the full workup
because he's VIP. Let's be honest. They said he was
being treated for it. How is he being treated? He
was probably given a medication. Those medications that treat BPH
can lower your PSA levels, So if he was getting

(02:54):
subsequent PSA levels after that screening for prostate cancer, it's
possible that that medication he was taking gave false negatives,
meaning cancer was starting to grow, but his PSA levels
were low from the medication he was on for the BPH,
so they didn't see the rise in PSA, so it's
possible they missed it. He probably wasn't getting a physical

(03:15):
exam to check for those nodules on the prostate, because
any man can tell you no one likes to have
this physical exam. It's a rectal exam and it's uncomfortable.
So a lot of men opt out of having the
physical exam and just going with the blood test. But again,
he was on a medication that could lower his PSA level,
giving him a false negative. So it is possible that
the cancer began growing and they missed it. So now

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the other question is did they know about his cancer
and they just didn't disclose it to the American public. Well,
that's also possible. It is highly likely that the cancer
developed while he was in the White House. I doubt
it was there in twenty nineteen, but I bet it
was there sometime in the White House. When did it start,
I don't know. When did it metastasize to the bones?
I don't know either, But I can tell you that

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he had multiple MRIs of his spine and hip throughout
the course of his presidency. Now, they never said specifically
he had those MRIs. They just said that his degenerative
change of the spine stayed the same, but there was
no nerve root compression. And the way that we look
for nerve root compression is with an MRI. If he
had metastatic lesions from prostate cancer in his spine or

(04:21):
in his hip, and he had these MRIs, we would
have seen them, or else I would hope that radiologists
picked it up, or else I'm going to have a
serious conversation with who's reading the president's films. So my
guess is he probably didn't have metastatic disease as late
as twenty twenty four, because that's the last time we
heard about his degenerative disease of his spine February twenty

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twenty four, but imaging that he did have after that.
He got COVID in July twenty twenty four. Now, while
you a ct chest is not indicated for people who
get COVID, he probably had a ct chest because again
he was the president, and you lay out the red
carpet and in fact at a CT chess in the past,
as did President Trump when he had COVID, just to

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make sure that the lungs look okay. Did they see
something on that ctchess, because the ctchess includes the thoracic spine.
Did they see any lesions in his spine that would
indicate an aggressive or an advanced cancer diagnosis. He dropped
out of the presidential race about a week later, so
maybe that's the time that they had an inclination that

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there was advanced disease going on. I don't know, obviously,
we don't have that information. All we heard was that
in the last week he presented with symptoms, they found
a hard nodule and then quickly they diagnosed him with
not only an aggressive prostate cancer, but one that metastasized
to the bone. They didn't tell us how they diagnosed that,
so I don't know. So my take is I doubt

(05:47):
he had prostate cancer in twenty nineteen because he had
the BPH workup at that time and they probably would
have or should have found prostate cancer at that time.
It's likely that it began forming while he was in
the White House. It's quite aggressive, so it's probably been
within the last couple of years, and it's unlikely he
had metastatic disease of the spine at least through his

(06:09):
MRIs from February twenty twenty four. I do wonder if
they saw something July twenty twenty four. But at the
end of the day, our President Biden has an aggressive,
very late stage prostate cancer, and good news is there
are some treatments for him, but he'll never be cured
from it. All we can hope is that he isn't
suffering from the intense bone pain that can come from it,
and that he's able to take some time to relax

(06:31):
spend it with his family. And I just hope that
they are being fully transparent with the American people, unlike
how they were with his cognitive decline. Thanks for tuning
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