Skip to player
Skip to main content
Skip to footer
Search
Connect
Recommended
1:29
|
Up next
Rep. Greg Murphy, A Board Certified Urologist, Discusses President Biden's Cancer Diagnosis
Forbes Breaking News
5/19/2025
2:40
GOP Lawmaker: These Are Lingering Questions About Biden After Cancer Reveal, Mental Acuity Reports
Forbes Breaking News
5/27/2025
0:19
Joe Biden Diagnosed With 'Aggressive' Form of Prostate Cancer
TaiwanPlus News
5/19/2025
3:20
Joe Biden Appears In Public After Prostate Cancer Diagnosis, Attends Grandson’s Graduation | Watch
Oneindia
5/25/2025
0:53
Joe Biden diagnosed with ‘aggressive’ prostate cancer
rapplerdotcom
5/19/2025
0:52
Watch: Joe Biden gives candid first health update since cancer diagnosis
The Independent
5/31/2025
1:08
Former US President Joe Biden diagnosed with 'aggressive' Stage 4 prostate cancer
Australian Community Media
5/19/2025
0:59
Joe Biden Diagnosed with 'Aggressive' Prostate Cancer and Reviewing Treatment Options
People
5/18/2025
3:17
Joe Biden Diagnosed With Aggressive Cancer | Trump & Kamala React | Asianet Newsable
Asianet News English
5/19/2025
3:43
Former US President Joe Biden Diagnosed With Aggressive Stage 4 Prostate Cancer That Spread To Bones
Oneindia
5/19/2025
1:35
President Trump Responds To Former President Biden's Prostate Cancer Diagnosis
Forbes Breaking News
5/19/2025
1:34
JD Vance Demands Answers About Biden Health In Office After Diagnosis Of Prostate Cancer
Forbes Breaking News
5/19/2025
0:45
Karoline Leavitt Asked If Trump Is Screened For Prostate Cancer After Biden's Diagnosis
Forbes Breaking News
5/19/2025
0:24
Karoline Leavitt Asked Following Biden’s Diagnosis: Is Trump Screened For Prostate Cancer In His Physical?
Forbes Breaking News
5/19/2025
1:37
Biden diagnosed with 'aggressive' prostate cancer
The Star
5/19/2025
3:08
Did Karoline Leavitt Mock Biden's Cancer Diagnosis - 'Trump Is in Perfect Health & Enduring Than...'
Oneindia
5/19/2025
1:21
Former President Biden Diagnosed With ‘Aggressive’ Form Of Prostate Cancer
Forbes Breaking News
5/19/2025
1:32
Americans react to Biden's cancer diagnosis
AFP English
5/24/2025
1:35
Joe Biden Shares Emotional Statement After Revealing 'Aggressive' Cancer Diagnosis: 'We Are Strongest in the Broken Places'
People
5/19/2025
0:28
Trump Jr alleges ‘cover-up’ after 2022 clip of Biden saying he has cancer resurfaces
The Independent
5/22/2025
0:29
Karoline Leavitt Asked If Trump Has Spoken To Biden After The Former President's Cancer Diagnosis
Forbes Breaking News
5/19/2025
0:22
Biden Diagnosed with Most Aggressive Form of Prostate Cancer
Cheddar News
5/24/2025
0:45
Biden Optimistic as He Begins Treatment for Prostate Cancer
TaiwanPlus News
5/31/2025
4:10
Trump Points Finger At Biden's Doctor, Autopen After Ex-President's Cancer Diagnosis
Forbes Breaking News
5/20/2025
0:43
Donald Trump Says Joe Biden Has 'Stage 9' Cancer During Press Briefing: 'I Think It's Very Sad, Actually'
People
5/20/2025
Watch fullscreen
Like
Comments
Bookmark
Share
Add to Playlist
Report
Greg Murphy Says 'Hard To Believe' White House Doc Didn't Conduct Cancer Test For Biden
Forbes Breaking News
Follow
5/21/2025
Congressman Greg Murphy (R-NC), a board certified urologist, joined "Forbes Newsroom" to discuss President Joe Biden's prostate cancer diagnosis.
Category
🗞
News
Transcript
Display full video transcript
00:00
Hi everybody, I'm Brittany Lewis, a breaking news reporter here at Forbes. Joining me now is
00:07
Congressman Greg Murphy. Congressman, thank you so much for joining me. Thank you for having me.
00:12
Congressman, I'm really grateful for your medical expertise today because President Biden announced
00:16
over the weekend that he was diagnosed with prostate cancer and I would love to get your
00:20
perspective as urologist who has treated prostate cancer patients before and for decades in the past.
00:26
I want to read some details from the statement announcing the diagnosis. First, they said that
00:31
the cancer is characterized by a Gleason score of 9, grade group 5. They also said that it has
00:37
metastasized to the bone. They said it's a more aggressive type of the disease, but it appears
00:41
to be hormone sensitive. So first, to start off the conversation, can you break down this statement
00:47
in layman's terms? What exactly does this diagnosis mean? Yeah, so Brittany, prostate cancer is a very
00:54
common diagnosis in men, especially older men. In fact, one in eight will be diagnosed with prostate
00:59
cancer in their lifetime. The good news is that most men don't die with prostate cancer. And so
01:05
what's happened with his specific diagnosis is that it has been determined that the cancer of origin
01:11
was from the prostate gland and that the prostate cancer has then spread to the bone. That's a very
01:16
common thing. If cancer comes from the prostate, it's going to spread anywhere. It will go to the bone.
01:22
How this all happened, I think there's a lot of conjecture. Diagnosis of prostate cancer,
01:28
the suspicion comes from a blood test called PSA, which stands for prostate-specific antigen,
01:34
which is a chemical that is made in normal prostate cells. They're normal levels, they're
01:39
abnormal levels. And generally with prostate cancer itself, the level is abnormal because the prostate
01:44
cancer cells, while they are originally prostate cells, tend to leak this chemical. So that causes the
01:51
blood level to rise. The other part, which is critical, is the physical examination and doing
01:56
a prostate examination, a rectal examination, to make sure that you don't have any abnormalities.
02:01
If you're able to detect cancer early, it's usually on the basis that the PSA is elevated with a normal
02:08
prostate examination. Reports are that the president was having symptoms, and generally symptoms either
02:14
can be difficulty urinating blood in the urine or possibly bone pain. And this led the physician to
02:20
check a PSA, to check a prostate examination, and by report, he found a nodule. And I guess that's where
02:27
they did then a biopsy to get tissue to look at under the microscope to determine whether it's,
02:33
whether something was wrong, whether it was cancer within the prostate itself. And then after that was
02:38
determined to do a radiographic x-ray analysis to see what stage the prostate was in, I mean,
02:44
the prostate cancer was in. There was a doctor on MSNBC yesterday, I'm warning Joe, Dr. Ezekiel
02:51
Emanuel. And he said that based on what he saw, based on what he believed here from what President
02:57
Biden's statement said, is that President Biden could have had cancer while he was in office.
03:03
Is that what you think? I mean, could that have been the case here? And how would that not have been
03:07
detected? It definitely was the case because this cancer didn't just pop up since January of this
03:14
past year. You know, we see a lot of patients with kidney cancers and they, we find them because
03:19
somebody came into the emergency department, maybe with a appendiceal pain or something, and a CT scan
03:24
shows maybe a large mass in the kidney. Well, that mass just didn't appear overnight. The cancer grows
03:29
slowly. But if you're not looking to detect it, you won't know that it's there. It could have very well
03:33
been there for five or eight years, but it would not have spread at that point in time. And so,
03:39
you know, this goes back to one of the issues, something called screening, PSA screening. There's
03:44
been a lot of debate about whether you should screen or not screen for prostate cancer. I'm very much a
03:48
pro screener because I've seen so many men that I've diagnosed that I've treated, done surgery or
03:53
whatever on and hopefully save their lives. But apparently, and this is just by a report that the
03:59
White House didn't feel a screening for prostate cancer was necessary. I don't normally do it in
04:05
individuals starting over 75-year-olds unless there are symptoms because generally their life
04:10
expectancy may not be 10 years. That's where we look for a screening benefit. But in someone who's
04:15
the president of the United States and, you know, looking to another four years of serving this country,
04:20
I find it very hard to believe that the physician or the White House did not direct not only a blood
04:27
test, a PSA test, which needs to be done in elderly men if they're going to live 10 years,
04:33
as well as a rectal examination. So this is where it was found. But the cancer was there. It may just,
04:38
it was not probably, probably not diagnosed. You tweeted about the PSA. You said, yes, I don't
04:46
normally screen for prostate cancer after 75, but not checking a PSA on someone running for the highest
04:51
office in the land is a complete travesty, medical and professional malpractice.
04:56
What went wrong here then, do you think, that this is medical and professional malpractice?
05:02
Well, medical and professional being two different things. Number one is, again,
05:07
an 82-year-old without, in the absence of symptoms, either being difficult urinating or bone pain,
05:13
you really wouldn't normally check a PSA. But in the framework that somebody is running for the
05:18
presidency of the United States, when you're trying to show the nation that he is fit and able to do his
05:23
job, especially in the light of this whole controversy of his cognitive decline, I think
05:29
it was imperative that physician recommended that test be ordered. Now, remember, we as physicians
05:34
can't tell or shouldn't be telling patients what to do. We can recommend this blood test. We can
05:39
recommend a rectal examination. Did he do that? Did that physician do that? Or did maybe President
05:45
Biden decline it and say, no, I don't need that? I think those are questions. I can't answer those.
05:51
I wasn't in the room when he was, when the, when the doctor was talking with the president at the
05:55
time, former president. So really knowing those, those answers really is going to be key to really
06:01
figuring out, was this really the right thing that happened? I want to talk about the timing of this
06:07
because that has been a question over the past 48 hours since the diagnosis came to light. The news
06:12
has come when the audio of the HerTapes has come out. Also, explosive reporting on President Biden's
06:18
mental acuity while he was in office is making headlines. David Axelrod said that conversations
06:23
regarding President Biden's cognitive abilities and mental acuity while he was in office should
06:28
be set aside for now in light of this diagnosis. What's your reaction to that argument?
06:33
I think that's ridiculous. I mean, this, us not talking, us talking about or not talking about
06:39
isn't going to change anything about the way the former president's being treated.
06:43
Look, this is a medical diagnosis. He's going to be, I'm assuming former President Biden's going to
06:49
be talking with oncology doctors or his urologist, one for that matter. Apparently he's already started
06:54
some hormone shots, which are help relieve the body of the male body of testosterone. Once
07:01
testosterone is gone, a lot of cancer cells need that to survive and they just die. And so, you know,
07:07
his treatment's not going to be changed about this, but what goes back is to the relevance is
07:13
why, why would anybody in America trust the Biden administration or honestly a lot of the Democrats for
07:18
that matter who, and mainstream media, who said that the president's acuity was okay. You know, I hate that
07:24
people are now saying that this was covered up and hit the prostate cancer diagnosis was covered up and
07:30
hidden. It probably was not. But the fact that there was conjecture and there's all sudden reasons to
07:36
believe that his cognitive ability was definitely covered up, just puts a further cloud on really
07:42
the administration and those who hid the mental cognitive decline of the president from the
07:47
American people. I think what you're saying, and correct me if I'm wrong, Vice President J.D. Vance
07:52
shared something similar. He said, you know, he is feeling for the former president. He's thinking
07:58
about him and his family. He also then followed up with this, whether the right time to have this
08:02
conversation is now or at some point in the future, we really need, do need to be honest
08:07
about whether the former president was capable of doing the job. Do you still think we need to
08:11
have that conversation and is now the right time in a few weeks? I mean, what does that look like?
08:16
No, I don't think there's any reason to not have that conversation now. It doesn't dim anything
08:21
about President Biden's treatment or what he's going through whatsoever. Let's just take, say we take
08:27
the cancer diagnosis out. We're talking about it. The whole conversation is about his mental decline
08:32
and the fact that this was hidden by the American people, by his wife of all people, by his family,
08:38
by his staff members, all of these things going on. So adding this other fuel to the fire, I don't
08:44
think it changes the conversation to question, you know, why did they lie so much to the American people?
08:50
And right when this news came out, President Trump released a statement saying that he and his wife,
08:55
First Lady Melania Trump, are thinking about the Bidens. President Trump suggested, though,
09:00
after that yesterday, that somebody is not telling the facts here. But what you're saying is,
09:06
as a doctor, based on your expertise, you don't believe that the prostate cancer diagnosis was
09:11
covered up, although you have questions separately about President Biden's mental acuity while in office.
09:17
Well, I just can't say that it was covered up. There's no indication. The only way I would know if
09:23
it was covered up or not is to know when the prostate biopsy was done. When was the determination
09:27
of cancer done? It very well could have been just five or six weeks ago. Maybe he had some hip pain.
09:33
And then finally, somebody did a PSA and a prostate examination on him. That may very well be plausible.
09:38
And that very well could have happened. Or it could have happened, you know, a year or two ago. And
09:43
he's been on blood tests. I mean, he's been on hormone treatments. And something else happened.
09:49
And again, I'd like to know when the biopsy was done, when the bone scan showed the metastatic
09:53
disease. That would give us the truthful answer about the entire thing.
09:57
And you posted that on social media. That's your main question. When was the biopsy done? That will
10:02
give us the information that we need. Do you think because President Biden is no longer president
10:07
anymore, he's not serving in public office, do you think we will get that information? And do you
10:11
think the American people deserve that information?
10:13
I don't know that we would get that. I'd love for the President Biden to come out and say this
10:19
is when my biopsy was done to just it would it would allay all the suspicions. There wouldn't
10:23
be any of the conspiracy theories going on. But this administration, you know, good Lord,
10:28
I think even the press correspondent for Jill Biden talked about the lack of transparency from
10:33
that administration. Why would he not just put that information out and say, look, we're
10:37
this is when it was done. Let's actually give a show of some transparency from that
10:41
administration. Do you have any other questions about this situation, about the Biden administration
10:46
and this type of diagnosis? Well, you know, his diagnosis and his treatment, he's in his
10:53
personal life right now. I don't have any questions about that. Hopefully he's surrounded himself
10:56
with very good and competent doctors. I'd like to know, number one, when the biopsy is done. And
11:02
number two, why wasn't this evaluated further when he was running for the presidency of the United
11:07
States? I think that's a real blemish across the across the administration and possibly the
11:13
White House doctors. Why weren't they giving a full unabridged account of the president's health
11:18
for the American people? You know, moving forward, you know, President Trump went through a full
11:22
physical. Everything was determined to be OK. I think the American people need to have trust.
11:27
They need to have reliability and a responsible report about the man who's going to be leading the
11:33
country moving forward. There's just so much distrust now because of the not of the lack of
11:38
transparency from the last administration. I think this would be a step forward to try to, hey,
11:44
to try to push transparency again if we knew some more facts about what the former president's
11:50
diagnosis, when it happened and when what prompted its investigation. And do you think those doctors
11:56
who were doing the physical and the tests on President Biden while he was president, do you think they
12:02
need to answer any questions right now? Well, you know, I think it's also a question within medicine
12:07
itself. I think there are physicians who are derelict in their duty that are not doing prostate
12:13
examinations. That's a that's a really a medical question. So the real question is, did the doctor
12:18
offer the test? If he did, did the president refuse? If he did not offer it, why did he not offer it?
12:24
Especially really in light. Again, I went back and say I don't normally do this over 75
12:29
in the absence of symptoms. If he didn't, why didn't he? So I mean, I think those are fair
12:34
questions and they should be answered. Congressman, I appreciate your time today. Thank you so much
12:39
for joining me. You're welcome back anytime. Thank you.
Recommended
1:29
|
Up next
Rep. Greg Murphy, A Board Certified Urologist, Discusses President Biden's Cancer Diagnosis
Forbes Breaking News
5/19/2025
2:40
GOP Lawmaker: These Are Lingering Questions About Biden After Cancer Reveal, Mental Acuity Reports
Forbes Breaking News
5/27/2025
0:19
Joe Biden Diagnosed With 'Aggressive' Form of Prostate Cancer
TaiwanPlus News
5/19/2025
3:20
Joe Biden Appears In Public After Prostate Cancer Diagnosis, Attends Grandson’s Graduation | Watch
Oneindia
5/25/2025
0:53
Joe Biden diagnosed with ‘aggressive’ prostate cancer
rapplerdotcom
5/19/2025
0:52
Watch: Joe Biden gives candid first health update since cancer diagnosis
The Independent
5/31/2025
1:08
Former US President Joe Biden diagnosed with 'aggressive' Stage 4 prostate cancer
Australian Community Media
5/19/2025
0:59
Joe Biden Diagnosed with 'Aggressive' Prostate Cancer and Reviewing Treatment Options
People
5/18/2025
3:17
Joe Biden Diagnosed With Aggressive Cancer | Trump & Kamala React | Asianet Newsable
Asianet News English
5/19/2025
3:43
Former US President Joe Biden Diagnosed With Aggressive Stage 4 Prostate Cancer That Spread To Bones
Oneindia
5/19/2025
1:35
President Trump Responds To Former President Biden's Prostate Cancer Diagnosis
Forbes Breaking News
5/19/2025
1:34
JD Vance Demands Answers About Biden Health In Office After Diagnosis Of Prostate Cancer
Forbes Breaking News
5/19/2025
0:45
Karoline Leavitt Asked If Trump Is Screened For Prostate Cancer After Biden's Diagnosis
Forbes Breaking News
5/19/2025
0:24
Karoline Leavitt Asked Following Biden’s Diagnosis: Is Trump Screened For Prostate Cancer In His Physical?
Forbes Breaking News
5/19/2025
1:37
Biden diagnosed with 'aggressive' prostate cancer
The Star
5/19/2025
3:08
Did Karoline Leavitt Mock Biden's Cancer Diagnosis - 'Trump Is in Perfect Health & Enduring Than...'
Oneindia
5/19/2025
1:21
Former President Biden Diagnosed With ‘Aggressive’ Form Of Prostate Cancer
Forbes Breaking News
5/19/2025
1:32
Americans react to Biden's cancer diagnosis
AFP English
5/24/2025
1:35
Joe Biden Shares Emotional Statement After Revealing 'Aggressive' Cancer Diagnosis: 'We Are Strongest in the Broken Places'
People
5/19/2025
0:28
Trump Jr alleges ‘cover-up’ after 2022 clip of Biden saying he has cancer resurfaces
The Independent
5/22/2025
0:29
Karoline Leavitt Asked If Trump Has Spoken To Biden After The Former President's Cancer Diagnosis
Forbes Breaking News
5/19/2025
0:22
Biden Diagnosed with Most Aggressive Form of Prostate Cancer
Cheddar News
5/24/2025
0:45
Biden Optimistic as He Begins Treatment for Prostate Cancer
TaiwanPlus News
5/31/2025
4:10
Trump Points Finger At Biden's Doctor, Autopen After Ex-President's Cancer Diagnosis
Forbes Breaking News
5/20/2025
0:43
Donald Trump Says Joe Biden Has 'Stage 9' Cancer During Press Briefing: 'I Think It's Very Sad, Actually'
People
5/20/2025