{
  "id": 19521522,
  "title": "Biden says he wouldn't have run for second term in 2024 if he knew he had cancer",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/11/biden-says-he-wouldnt-have-run-for-second-term-in-2024-if-he-knew-he",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-11-11T16:52:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Korea Times",
    "slug": "the-korea-times",
    "url": "https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/world/20261112/biden-says-he-wouldnt-have-run-for-second-term-in-2024-if-he-knew-he-had-cancer"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "In an interview with People magazine, outgoing President Joe Biden revealed he was unaware of his cancer diagnosis during his presidency and would not have pursued a second term if he knew. The 84-year-old Democrat, who is set to turn 84 on November 20, stated that if he had been aware of his declining health due to cancer, he would not have proceeded with his 2024 reelection campaign. Biden's presidency ended in a contentious debate against Republican Donald Trump, which was less than five months prior to the November election.\n\nDiagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer months after leaving office, Biden expressed his belief that an 80-year-old man with cancer should not be running for the highest office in the land. He maintained that the June 2024 debate, which took place less than five months before Election Day, was not a critical turning point despite the subsequent rise in Democrats' concerns about his age and physical ability to defeat Trump. \"I thought there’d be another debate, which there wasn’t,\" Biden noted, reflecting on his decision not to seek a second term.",
  "summary": "ATLANTA — Joe Biden says he did not know he had cancer while he was president and would not have sought a second term if he already had been diagnosed. The former Democratic president's comments came in an interview with People magazine before the release of his White House memoir on Tuesday. “If I had known that I was feeling lousy because I had cancer,” said Biden, who turns 84 on Nov. 20, “I…",
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        "outlet": "CityNews",
        "title": "Biden says he wouldn’t have run for a second term in 2024 if he knew he had cancer",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/11/biden-says-he-wouldnt-have-run-for-a-second-term-in-2024-if-he-knew",
        "published": "2026-11-11T16:11:27.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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