President Joe Biden’s diagnosis of aggressive prostate cancer has brought the disease into the spotlight nationwide. Now local patients and doctors are speaking up to educate their community.

Former President Joe Biden was diagnosed with prostate cancer, his office announced Sunday. The finding for the 82-year-old came after he reported urinary symptoms, which led doctors to find a nodule in his prostate,

The news that former President Joe Biden had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer is a reminder of the importance of cancer reasearch, according to a doctor at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.