Joe Biden had surgery to remove a lesion on his chest that was a type of skin cancer

A skin lesion removed from the president’s chest Joe Biden last month was a basal cell carcinomaa common form of skin cancer, her doctor said on Friday, adding that no further treatment was needed.

Dr. Kevin O’Connor, the longtime White House physician who served as Biden’s physician, said “all cancerous tissue was successfully deletedduring the president’s routine physical examination on February 16.

O’Connor said the removal site on Biden’s chest “healed very well” and the president will continue regular skin exams as part of his routine health plan.

Basal cells are among the most common and easily treated forms of cancer, especially when caught early. O’Connor said that don’t tend to spread Like other cancers, but they can get bigger, which is why they are removed.

Jill Biden underwent surgery for the same diagnosis on January 11. During surgery, two cancerous lesions skin. According to official information, the doctors managed to completely remove all the fabric in both sectors.

The US president’s wife was due to be admitted to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and was released hours later. The procedure she underwent is known as Mohs surgerysaid the presidential doctor.

Initially, Jill Biden was going to have a lesion removed on her ojo right, but during this procedure doctors confirmed that the injury was basal cell carcinoma, which is the most common form of cancer diagnosed in the United States, but doctors detected another lesion on the left side of the chest and were evaluating a similar diagnosis, O’Connor added. Also in this case it was removed by the same method.

Similarly, during the intervention, the professionals identified a small lesion on the left eyelid of Biden, but they could not conclude if it is the same type of carcinoma. The medical decision was to remove it and send it to a laboratory for a “standard microscopic examination”.

In the United States, one in five people are expected to develop it. During his life. It is the most common type in humans and one of its most important causes is unprotected exposure to the sun, as well as tanning beds. Other less common causes are repeated exposure to X-raysthe presence of severe burn scars, environmental exposure to arsenic, and a family history of skin cancer.

There American Cancer Society reported that basal cell and squamous cell cancers are the two most common types and appear on sun-exposed areas, such as the face, head and neck. In the United States, these two types of cancer are diagnosed in more than 3.3 million cases each year.

Basal cell cancers tend to grow very slowly and are very unlikely to spread, the doctors said. They may appear as an unusual growth on the skin.

(With AP information)

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