Biden: “If I knew I was feeling bad about cancer, I would give up”

Jbiden said he would have resigned from the presidency of the United States and also ended his re-election campaign in 2024 if he had been diagnosed with cancer during his presidency.

The statement was made in statements to People magazine: “[...] If I knew I was feeling bad because I had cancer, I would have resigned.”.

Biden, 83 years old, also explained that he would not have applied, as he does not think “that someone aged 80 and cancer should apply” to the presidency.

It should be noted that the former president gave up the re-candidacy for president in july 2024 and supported his vice president Kamala Harris to advance against Donald Trump in the White House race, a dispute that the Democrat lost, granting victory to the current president, but advocating that it was time to “tighten the sleeves”.

The exit of the race arose among criticisms that were already being made to Biden, including concern from Democrats.

In the last debate with Trump, Biden proved to be a little energetic and, about that moment, told People that “there is no one who has not made a mistake in the debate”.

In May last year, Biden announced that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer, which spread to the bones.

“ All I can do – with the team of my amazing medical team and even more with my family – is fight everything. And that’s what I’m doing,” Biden wrote in his memoir, “Promise Me, America” [Promise Me, America] that will be released on November 17. 

About his health, Biden also spoke to People magazine, saying that everything is going as positively as possible: “There are people who are diagnosed with cancer, particularly with it what I have, and who live long lives, another ten or 20 years. So far, the tests I've been doing show that the cancer hasn't metastasized more than it already was. I take eight different tablets a day”.