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As most of you are likely aware, last weekend it was announced that former President Joe Biden had been diagnosed with stage 4 (i.e., metastatic) prostate cancer. Putting politics and conspiracy theories aside, and speaking strictly from a medical perspective, the news is nothing short of a tragic demonstration of Medicine 2.0 at its worst.
Prostate cancer is one of the very few forms of cancer for which metastasis, and therefore mortality, are almost entirely preventable. Thus, news of such advanced disease in anyone is unacceptable in my…