US President Joe Biden has successfully undergone treatment to remove a cancerous lesion. The White House physician, Kevin O’Connor, revealed in a memo released Friday afternoon that during a routine medical examination that took place on February 16, a suspect was diagnosed on President Biden’s chest and taken For a biopsy under the heading “Skin cancer follow-up”.
The biopsy revealed that the lesion was cancerous, and the doctors successfully removed it. “As expected, the biopsy confirmed that the small lesion was basal cell carcinoma. All the cancerous tissue was successfully removed. The area around the biopsy area was treated with electrodization and healing during the biopsy. The area healed nicely after the biopsy, and no further treatment is necessary.
Such lesions do not tend to spread or grow metastases, like other, more serious forms of skin cancer. They may also increase in size and become a bigger problem, as well as making surgical removal more difficult. Mr. Biden will continue dermatological follow-ups as part of his ongoing medical care,” Dr. O’Connor wrote in the medical memo he released Friday.
According to the US Skin Cancer Foundation, basal cell carcinoma is one of the two most common types of skin cancer in the US. Each year, 3.6 million Americans are diagnosed with this type of skin cancer.
Last January, three lesions were removed from the body of the president’s wife, Jill Biden, with two of them later diagnosed as cancerous basal cell carcinoma.