Joe Biden to scale back book tour as cancer ‘slows me down’

Former President Joe Biden signaled he will have to scale back the tour to promote his upcoming memoir “Promise me, America,” as he continues to undergo treatment for cancer.

“Some days are better than others,” Biden wrote in a lengthy post on X on Sunday. “It hasn’t stopped me. But sometimes it slows me down.”

As a result, Biden said he would no longer “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.”

Months after leaving office in January 2025, Biden, 83, announced that he had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer and has since undertaken courses of radiation therapy and hormone treatment.

Last year, his office also shared that he had undergone surgery to remove cancerous skin cells.

The memoir is due out on Nov. 17 and details his four years in the White House, including “the decisions I made, and why I made them,” he wrote. “More than anything, it’s about my faith in the American people and the great American experiment in self-governance and democracy.”

In August, his son, Hunter Biden, told the BBC in an interview that his…

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