Beau Biden In Health Scare; Being Checked Over for Possible Cancer

Beau Biden, the son of Vice President Joe Biden, is being evaluated at a cancer center in Texas, according to a report from the Associated Press.

People familiar with the situation said Biden was being checked over on Tuesday at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. People spoke to the The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak in an official capacity.

Biden’s wife and father were with him. The vice president’s office said he planned to remain in Houston on Wednesday.

Beau Biden, who is the Delaware attorney general, suffered a mild stroke in 2010, On the night of Aug. 14, after driving to Indiana for a family vacation, he felt weak and disoriented according to Jason Miller, a spokesman for the Delaware Department of Justice.

Biden, 44, was initially admitted to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. The next day he traveled to a Philadelphia hospital. He was discharged and spent last weekend at home in Wilmington.

Miller said Monday night that Biden was undergoing testing in Houston to determine the cause of his symptoms, though he’d declined to say exactly where the testing was being done.

Beau Biden’s Twitter account posted a photo on Sunday of him and his father sitting on a porch and smiling.

Unfortunately, this isn’t the first health scare for Beau Biden. After a mild stroke in May 2010, he spent a week in the hospital and then a month recuperating at home.

“Stroke was the farthest thing from my mind when I went in,” Biden said at that time.

Beau Biden’s father has had health scares of his own, including a life-threatening brain aneurysm in 1988, when he was 45.