Beau Biden, son of US vice-president Joe Biden, dies of brain cancer.

Statement from White House says family ‘saddened beyond words’ at death of 46-year-old, a former Delaware attorney general and national guardsman

In 2009 Joe Biden talks with his son Beau at Camp Victory on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq. Photograph: Khalid Mohammed/AP

The US vice-president, Joe Biden, announced on Saturday that his son Beau had died of brain cancer.
“The entire Biden family is saddened beyond words.
We know that Beau’s spirit will live on in all of us, especially through his brave wife, Hallie, and two remarkable children, Natalie and Hunter,” said a statement from Joe Biden released by the White House said.

It is with broken hearts that Hallie, Hunter, Ashley, Jill and I announce the passing of our husband, brother and son, Beau, after he battled brain cancer with the same integrity, courage and strength he demonstrated every day of his life,” the vice president said in a statement late Saturday.

The family was at Beau Biden’s side when he died, the vice-president said.
Beau Biden, 46, was a former Delaware attorney general. He was first diagnosed with brain cancer in August 2013. He underwent surgery at MD Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas in Houston to remove a lesion. That was followed by radiation treatment and chemotherapy, and Beau Biden’s doctor gave him a clean bill of health three months later, in November, officials said.
He announced last year that he would not seek a third term as attorney general and instead planned to run for governor in 2016. He suffered a recurrence of illness this spring and was admitted to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in May, officials said.
After eight years as attorney general Beau Biden joined the investor law firm Grant & Eisenhofer in 2015.

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