How was Joe Biden’s cancer not caught earlier? The news that the former president is battling an aggressive, stage-4 prostate cancer that has spread to the bone ignited a public debate about why a person with peerless access to medical care was diagnosed at such an advanced stage with a disease that is quite common in men his age.

While [I] definitely agree that Biden’s declining mental acuity was covered up, it is medically reckless to assume his prostate cancer was as well,’ stated North Carolina Congressman Greg Murphy, M.D.

Doctors have substantiated the claim, saying it is unlikely the cancer wasn't caught earlier, with the top-of-the-line medical care a president receives.

In the old Gleason system, which goes from 6 to 10, Biden’s Gleason score is a 9, which is “among the most aggressive types [of prostate cancer],” said Dr. Jason Efstathiou, a radiation oncologist at Mass General Brigham in Boston.