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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Via AP news wire

Jill Biden opens up on husband Joe’s cancer battle: ‘It’s been tough’

  • Former first lady Jill Biden has given an update on her husband’s cancer battle, saying that Joe Biden 's prostate cancer diagnosis has led to him getting "tired a little more often.”
  • “Cancer takes its toll,” she told MSNOW . But she added that the former president is “still giving speeches” and “still on Amtrak a couple of times a month, keeping a schedule.”
  • Biden’s son, Beau Biden, died of an aggressive brain cancer in 2015, when his father was vice president.
  • “I know every family in America has been touched by cancer,” Jill Biden said. “So I think people can relate when I say ... it’s been, it’s been tough.”
  • The interview comes as part of Jill Biden’s media tour touting her new memoir of the Bidens’ White House years.
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