Jill Biden Says White House Docs ‘Missed’ Joe’s Cancer

Former first lady Jill Biden suggested during a recent interview that the White House health care team should have diagnosed former President Joe Biden’s advanced prostate cancer much earlier.

Jill Biden spoke with Rita Braver for an interview that aired on CBS News and discussed her husband’s diagnosis, which came just a few months after they left the White House in early 2025, and how the health care team could have missed the aggressive disease that had already metastasized to his bones.

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RITA BRAVER: So is it a big change? You were in The White House and you are living kind of a quiet life in Delaware?

JILL BIDEN: Well, it’s not exactly a quiet life. I mean, we are… pic.twitter.com/khvdCKizAx

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“So is it a big change?” Braver asked. “You were in the White House, and you are living kind of a quiet life in Delaware?”

“Well, it’s not exactly a quiet life. I mean, we are still doing a lot of things, writing, traveling, speaking. But then we come home, and this is our peaceful place, let’s put it that way,” Jill Biden replied, noting that she and the former president were certainly still keeping themselves busy.

Braver provided the voice-over as the network cut to the next portion of the interview: “But there has not been a lot of peace for the Bidens.”

“Just four months after leaving office, President Biden was diagnosed with an aggressive form of stage four prostate cancer that had traveled to his bones,” Braver prompted, and Jill Biden affirmed that timeline. “How is the president doing now?”

“He is doing well. But it was a shock. I mean, Rita, honestly, I can remember getting the diagnosis, and it was just, it was shocking,” she explained.

Braver opened the door for Jill Biden to put the onus on the White House health care team: “Do you think that someone, when he was in The White House, should have discovered it, given him a test?”

“Well, you know, the doctors said that according to the American Urological Association, that men over 70 don’t need a PSA, a blood test anymore because it’s a slow-growing cancer. I have to say, Rita, I do feel we had amazing care in The White House, but somehow that was missed,” she replied.

“So you’re a little bit tense when it comes to his health, huh?” Braver pressed.

“I don’t know if the word is ‘tense,’ but I think I’m vigilant,” Jill Biden replied.

The former first lady also recently revealed that she had worried that her husband might have been having a stroke during his debate with President Donald Trump.

Trump challenged her in a Truth Social post, arguing that if she had truly been concerned for her husband’s health during the debate, she should have rushed out onto the stage to help him.

“She said that she thought he was having a ‘stroke,’ and various other really bad things, and yet never rushed onto the stage to help her troubled husband, as any good wife would do,” he said.