Joe and Jill Biden said Monday that they were grateful for the “love and support” they received since the former president’s office announced his cancer diagnosis on Sunday.
“Cancer touches us all,” said the couple in A publication in the social networks of Joe Biden. “Like many of you, Jill and I have learned that we are stronger in broken places. Thank you for getting up with love and support.”
The publication included a photo of the couple, along with their cat, Willow.
The Biden office said Sunday that they had diagnosed on Friday with prostate cancer, saying that although it was “a more aggressive form of the disease, cancer seems to be sensitive to hormones, which allows effective management.”
“The president and his family are reviewing the treatment options with their doctors,” said the statement on Sunday.
The diagnosis of Biden cancer occurs after a small nodule was found in the former president’s prostate after “a physical examination of routine” on Tuesday. The discovery of the nodule “required an additional evaluation,” said his spokesman at that time.
President Joe Biden kisses his wife, the first lady Jill Biden, after giving the opening speech the first day of the National Democratic Convention (DNC) at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, on August 19, 2024.
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The feeling of being stronger in the “broken places” derives from a line widely used in “A Farewell to Arms”, an Ernest Hemingway novel, which says: “The world breaks everyone and then many are strong in broken places.” It is an appointment that drove has often applied in difficult and important times, both in their life and for the general public.
Biden used the phrase in 2016, since he opened his speech at the National Democratic Convention. He then cited the line in March 2021, since the country marked the first anniversary of the Covid-19 Pandemic statement. And he repeated it in September 2021, on the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, using Hemingway’s words in his tribute to the victims.
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ABC News ABC Harper, Brittany Shepherd, Eric M. Strauss and Leah Sarnoff contributed to this report.
