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Longtime advisers to former President Biden told The Post on
Monday that they were alarmed that his Stage 4 prostate cancer wasn't detected
before it spread to his bones, and they worry that concern about public
reaction may have delayed his diagnosis.
"I think they sensed something was going on, they were
worried, and they sort of brushed it off a little bit," a White House
staffer who worked closely with Biden, 82, told the New York Post.
In contrast to what appears to have been a deliberate effort
to hide his declining mental health, former advisers told The Post that they
believe there was a deliberate disregard for his physical condition, driven by
fears that a cancer diagnosis could have derailed last year's election, when
Biden refused to step aside and open the field to other Democratic contenders.
The former president's office revealed on Sunday that he
received a diagnosis two days earlier, after reporting an "increase in
urinary symptoms."