Former President Joe Biden is beginning radiation and hormone therapy to treat an aggressive form of prostate cancer, his office confirmed Saturday.

“As part of a treatment plan for prostate cancer, President Biden is currently undergoing radiation therapy and hormone treatment,” a spokesperson for the former president said, according to reporting from NBC News.

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The radiation treatment is expected to last five weeks and he has already begun taking a pill form of hormone medication.

Biden, 82, first disclosed his cancer diagnosis in May, revealing that the disease had spread to his bones. The announcement

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