Joe Biden’s Wife Jill Shares Health Symptom He Experienced Ahead of Prostate Cancer Diagnosis

Dr. Jill Biden is sharing a health symptom her husband Joe Biden was dealing with before he was diagnosed with stage four prostate cancer.

The former first lady, 75, appeared on the Wednesday, August 5, episode of the Let’s Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa podcast and recalled that at some point while the politician, 83, was serving as president of the United States, he was urinating multiple times after going to bed.

“I said to the doctors he’s getting up seven times a night. So I thought it was addressed,” Jill recalled. “They were following the American Urological Association guidelines, and so they didn’t give him the PSA (prostate-specific antigen) test, the blood test.”

“But when it continued, when we got out of the White House, I said, ‘Joe, we’ve got to go up to Jeff in Philly — something’s wrong,” she recounted. “I never thought it would be prostate cancer.”

Joe left the Oval Office in January 2025 and shared his diagnosis with the world this past May. On the podcast, Jill said, the former vice president is doing “OK” right now.

“Unfortunately for Joe, it metastasized to his bones, which means that he will forever live with cancer, and we have to be mindful of it, every three months testing and medicines,” she said. “Anybody who’s gone through this cancer journey — and I’ve been through it many times with members of my family, of course with Beau — it’s constant. It’s daily. And I think it’s challenging.”

Joe shared son Beau Biden with his first wife, Neilia Hunter, who tragically died in a car crash in 1972. Beau passed away from brain cancer in May 2015.