New Delhi, Aug. 9 -- WASHINGTON - Hunter Biden told a BBC interviewer this week that his father's prostate cancer has spread to his bones and causes significant pain, a disclosure more explicit than any the former president's family had previously made about the trajectory of his illness, NBC News reported.

"The cancer has spread," Hunter said in an interview with BBC Newsnight host Paddy O'Connell, broadcast Thursday. "It's metastasized into his bones and further. It's very painful." The words marked the first public confirmation that Joe Biden's disease, diagnosed in May 2025, had progressed to a stage that typically requires sustained management rather than curative treatment.

That the disclosure came from Hunter - rather than from a...