Ammon News - Former President Biden said on Friday afternoon that he was feeling good after beginning treatment for an aggressive form of prostate cancer.

“The prognosis is good,” he said.

“We’re working on everything. All the folks are optimistic,” he added, referring to his medical team. He said that one of the surgeons treating him was given the same diagnosis 32 years ago.

Biden spoke to reporters after an event honoring veterans in New Castle, Del., making his first public remarks since May 18, when his office announced his illness and said the cancer had metastasized to the bone. Biden attended the event, which fell on the 10th anniversary of the death of his son Beau, with Beau’s son, Robert Biden II, who graduated from high school this week.

Biden said that his treatment was “all a matter of taking a pill, one particular pill.”

“The expectation is we’re going to be able to beat this,” he said.

Biden’s cancer was given a Gleason score of 9. The score is used to describe how prostate cancers look under a microscope; 9 and 10 are the most aggressive. NY times