The American Cancer Society reports that the chances that men diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer live five years is 37 percent.
A urologic oncologist at Broward Health Medical Center told Local 10 that given former President Joe Biden's age and the advanced stage diagnosis announced Sunday, he is facing a tough challenge.
Biden's advanced metastatic prostate cancer spread to his bones.
Local 10 sat down with Dr. Michael Tyler to discuss what the former 82-year-old president is facing.
"In his case, we found that the disease has already spread outside of the prostate and the different parts of his body. So that puts him in a different category," Tyler said.