Cancer diagnosis and a new book fuel questions about Biden’s decision to run in 2024

Former President Biden’s cancer diagnosis comes as a new book details efforts by aides to shield the effects of his aging from the public and the press during last year’s presidential campaign. The cancer diagnosis only intensified scrutiny over Biden’s health and questions as to whether he and his team were honest about it with the public. And a failure to test for elevated PSA levels could have missed the progression of the disease. Dr. Mark Litwin, the chair of UCLA Urology, said it is in the nature of aggressive prostate cancers to grow quickly. Dr. Howard Sandler, chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology at Cedars-Sinai, said he sees three potential explanations for Biden’s diagnosis.