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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Joe Sommerlad

CNN host describes timing of Biden’s cancer announcement as ‘extraordinary’

CNN host and media pundit Brian Stelter has questioned the timing of former President Joe Biden’s announcement on Sunday that he has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer, calling it “extraordinary” as the news coincides with a series of negative stories about the Democrat’s final years in the White House.

Biden, 82, received the diagnosis on Friday, according to a spokesperson, after doctors discovered a “small nodule” on his prostate that required additional evaluation and subsequently determined that the cancer is “high grade” and has spread to the bone.

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