据MS NOW从其即将出版的回忆录中获得的节选，前总统乔·拜登对那些暗示他掩盖病情、未及时公开癌症诊断的人表达了不满并予以驳斥。
Former president Joe Biden expresses frustration and delivers a rebuke to those who suggested he covered-up and failed to disclose his cancer diagnosis in a timely manner, according to excerpts obtained by MS NOW from his soon to be released memoir.
拜登去年5月公开宣布了自己的前列腺癌诊断，而他说医生最初确诊是在此之前几天。
Biden announced his prostate cancer diagnosis publicly last May, days after he said doctors first diagnosed him.
在下周即将出版的回忆录《Promise Me, America》节选中，拜登写道：“让我意外的是，政治媒体和政治评论员对这件事的报道出现了刻薄的扭曲。”“几乎立刻，反应就是：‘你瞒着我们。’‘你肯定早就知道。’‘你在撒谎。’我告诉你们：这个世界上没有任何一个癌症四期患者不希望它被更早发现。”这位前总统没有点名任何人，但他的继任者曾暗示拜登对自己的健康状况不诚实。
In excerpts of his personal memoir, “Promise Me, America” set to be released next week, Biden writes, “What did surprise me was the cynical twist the story took in the political press and among political commentators.”“Almost immediately, the reaction was: ‘You hid it from us.’ ‘You must have known it.’ ‘You’re lying.’ Let me tell you something: There isn’t anyone in this world with stage 4 cancer who doesn’t wish it had been caught sooner.”The former president did not call out anyone by name, but his successor suggested Biden wasn’t being honest about his health.
特朗普总统最初向拜登表达了祝愿，但很快对这位前总统的癌症声明提出质疑。特朗普当时在椭圆形办公室说：“我很惊讶公众很久以前没有得到通知，因为发展到第九期，那需要很长时间。”特朗普还在没有证据的情况下声称：“有人在隐瞒事实。”在书中，拜登记述了自己出现“一些泌尿系统症状”，这促使他在2025年5月去看医生。医生在他的前列腺上发现了一个结节，诊断他患上了进展迅速的癌症四期前列腺癌。两天后拜登宣布了这一诊断，并立即开始接受激素治疗和放射治疗。
President Trump initially offered his well wishes to Biden, but quickly raised questions over the former president’s cancer announcement. “I’m surprised the public wasn’t notified a long time ago because to get to stage nine, that’s a long time,” Trump said in the Oval Office at the time last year. Trump also claimed without evidence: “Somebody is not telling the facts.”In the book, Biden chronicles experiencing “some urinary symptoms” which led him to the doctor in May 2025. Doctors found a nodule on his prostate and diagnosed him with fast-moving, stage 4 prostate cancer. Biden announced the diagnosis two days later and began receiving hormone and radiation therapy immediately.
拜登说：“任何人若认为我会试图无视或隐瞒正在摧残我身体的癌症，都是荒谬的。”“以下是简单的事实。标准医疗规程是，男性年过七十岁后就不再接受前列腺癌筛查。”美国预防服务工作组表示，对于70岁以上的男性，前列腺筛查的潜在益处“并不大于预期危害”。
“For anyone to think I would try to ignore or hide a cancer ravaging my body is absurd,” Biden says. “Here are the simple facts. Standard medical protocol is to stop testing men for prostate cancer after the age of seventy.”The U.S. Preventative Services Task Force says the potential benefits of prostate screening “do not outweigh the expected harms” for men over the age of 70 years old.
拜登写道：“今天坐在这里，我是否希望自己早点接受检查？是的，我希望。我是否希望癌症在扩散到骨骼之前就被发现？是的，我希望。”“但我得到的治疗与全美任何其他82岁男性并无不同。也许我本应得到不同的对待。但我没有。”拜登卸任时是历史上年龄最大的在任总统，他因年龄和健康状况受到审视，尤其是他在任期间思维是否敏锐。
“And as I sit here today, do I wish I had been tested sooner? Yes, I do. Do I wish the cancer had been caught before it spread to my bones? Yes, I do,” Biden writes. “But I was treated no differently from any other eighty-two-year-old man in America. Maybe I should have been. But I wasn’t.”Biden, who left office as the oldest sitting president in history faced scrutiny over his age and health, particularly his mental sharpness while in office.
2024年6月与特朗普辩论后，他结束了自己的连任竞选，此前他曾多次难以回答问题、思路中断。亨特·拜登今年早些时候在一档播客中推测，父亲在那场辩论时已不知不觉地患上了癌症。
He ended his re-election bid following a June 2024 debate with Trump after a series of moments where he struggled to answer questions and lost his train of thought. Hunter Biden speculated on a podcast earlier this year that his father was unknowingly suffering from cancer at that debate.
拜登说，确诊17个月后，他于10月在宾夕法尼亚大学医学中心完成了最后一次放射治疗，“敲响了铃，标志我的治疗结束”。拜登继续接受激素治疗，以控制癌症。
Seventeen months after his diagnosis, Biden says he had his final radiation therapy in October at Penn Medicine and “rang the bell to signal the conclusion of my treatment.”Biden continues to receive his hormone treatment, keeping the cancer at bay.
在新书出版前，拜登在社交媒体上发帖称，医生对他对治疗的反应“继续感到鼓舞”，但他补充说，由于健康状况，他不得不缩减原定为新书宣传的活动。
Ahead of his book release, Biden posted on social media that doctors “continue to be encouraged” about how he’s responded to treatment, but adds that because of his health he’s had to scale back planned events promoting his book.
他写道：“有些日子会好一些，有些日子会差一些。这并没有让我停下脚步，但有时会让我慢下来。这意味着，遗憾的是，我无法像我原本希望的那样，为我的书做那么多次对话。不过，我希望书页上的文字本身就能说明一切。”离开华盛顿后，拜登大多数日子都在威尔明顿的家中度过，但仍保持着公开日程，过去一年里还领衔出席了五场州民主党晚宴。周一，他出席了特拉华大学拜登大楼的奠基仪式。
“Some days are better than others. It hasn’t stopped me. But sometimes it slows me down,” he wrote. “What that means is, unfortunately, I won’t be able to do as many conversations about my book as I’d hoped. However, I’m hopeful the words on the page speak for themselves.”Since leaving Washington, Biden has spent most days at his home in Wilmington but continues to maintain a public schedule, including headlining five state Democratic Party dinners over the last year. On Monday, he attended the groundbreaking of Biden Hall at the University of Delaware.
拜登写道：“在白宫日复一日的忙碌中，很难抽身出来从长远角度看问题——因为每时每刻都有太多事情发生。但现在，从我的湖畔住所，我能够放慢脚步，品味我总统任期的成果。”在书中，拜登回顾了他的总统任期以及他的家人与癌症的长期斗争。他指出，前第一夫人吉尔·拜登于1993年开始参与癌症教育和预防倡导工作，当时她的四位朋友被诊断出患有乳腺癌。
“In the daily grind of the White House, it could be difficult to step back and take the long view — because so much was happening every minute,” Biden writes. “But now, from my lake house, I am able to slow down and savor the results of my Presidency.”In the book Biden reflects on his presidency and his family’s long fight against cancer. He notes former first lady Jill Biden got involved with cancer education and prevention advocacy in 1993 when four of her friends were diagnosed with breast cancer.
拜登写道：“我所能做的——在出色的医疗团队和更好的家人的帮助下——就是拼命抗争。而这正是我在做的。”
“All I can do— with the help of an incredible medical team and an even better family— is fight like hell. And that’s what I’m doing,” Biden writes.