A top doctor to US presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump warned The Washington Free Beacon that the prognosis for former president Joe Biden’s metastatic prostate cancer is grim—and that the former commander in chief could be dead within a year, reports The Washington Free Beacon .

Biden’s personal office stunned the world on Sunday when it revealed that what had been described as a "small nodule" is actually Stage 4 prostate cancer that has metastasized to his bones.

"This is not my area of specialty, but I have spoken to multiple urologists since this came out, and the general consensus is like, you know, it could be 12 to 18 months," Ronny Jackson said.