Former President Joe Biden had not been screened for prostate cancer in the last decade before discovering an aggressive form of the disease last week, according to Biden’s office. “President Biden’s last known PSA (Prostate Specific Antigen test) was in 2014,

A vast credibility gap greeted the latest explanation for why former President Joe Biden’s prostate cancer was never disclosed during his presidency. On Sunday, Biden’s representatives announced that he had prostate cancer that had spread to his bones.

How was Joe Biden’s cancer not caught earlier? The news that the former president is battling an aggressive, stage-4 prostate cancer that has spread to the bone ignited a public debate about why a person with peerless access to medical care was diagnosed at such an advanced stage with a disease that is quite common in men his age.