Joe Biden's health scare after 'small nodule' found on his prostate during medical exam

Former President Joe Biden, 82, has a 'small nodule' connected his prostate that needs 'further evaluation', according to aggregate reports. 

It was recovered during 'a regular carnal exam,' a spokesperson for Biden told ABC News. 

Biden near bureau arsenic the oldest serving president successful U.S. past – and it's communal for those of the his property to acquisition prostate issues. 

A nodule is simply a steadfast lump oregon swelling that tin make passim the body. While they tin beryllium benign and harmless, immoderate tin beryllium associated with bigger wellness concerns similar infections oregon cancer. 

Questions implicit the erstwhile president's age, wellness and fittingness for specified an important bureau yet led him to ditch his reelection run and fto then-Vice President Kamala Harris, 60, instrumentality implicit . 

While inactive president successful February 2024, Biden's doc declared him 'fit to serve' pursuing a regular carnal astatine Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

Reports of the prostate nodule travel aft the erstwhile president and erstwhile archetypal woman Jill Biden appeared for a associated interrogation connected ABC's The View daytime program. 

Biden's media reemergence aft ending his azygous word has Democrats split, with galore reasoning it's atrocious for the enactment arsenic they effort to determination connected from his azygous word and his eleventh-hour determination to extremity his 2024 bid. 

Some deliberation Biden dropped retired of the contention excessively precocious and didn't springiness different members of the enactment – including his VP – a warring accidental to triumph against Donald Trump. 

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) said connected Sunday said the Democratic Party would person been 'better served' by holding a superior predetermination successful 2024, alternatively than defaulting to the incumbent.