Ex-president Joe Biden’s cancer has spread, is very painful, son says

WASHINGTON - Former US president Joe Biden’s prostate cancer has spread beyond his bones and is very painful, his son, Hunter Biden, said in an interview with the BBC.• “The cancer has spread, metastasized into his bones and further,” Hunter Biden told BBC’s Newsnight, according to video posted online on Aug 7. “It’s very painful and it’s very debilitating in many respects.”• A spokesman for the 83-year-old Democrat declined on Aug 8 to comment on Hunter Biden’s interview.• Biden revealed in May 2025, less than four months after he left the White House, that he had been diagnosed with an “aggressive form” of prostate cancer, saying at the time that it had spread to his bones.• A Biden spokesman said in October he was undergoing radiation treatment and hormone therapy.• Biden was the oldest