The president of the United States, Joe Biden, underwent surgery last February for a skin carcinoma, according to what Dr. Kevin O’Connor, the president’s personal physician, has just announced.
Biden, 80 years old and intending to run for re-election as president, has had a “small” basal cell carcinoma, a fairly common skin cancer that has been “completely removed,” according to the doctors, after receiving the biopsy results.
The surgical operation to remove the tumor was carried out on February 16, with the annual check-up, and the president remains under surveillance by dermatologists, although they consider that the lesion, which was located on the chest, was very localized and that it did not further treatment is necessary. The doctor has stressed that the area was treated during the biopsy, “it has healed very well. “The president will continue dermatological surveillance as part of his ongoing comprehensive medical care,” he stressed.
No metastases
Basal carcinoma is usually related to damage caused to the skin by the sun. The doctor stressed in this report provided by the White House that basal cell carcinoma lesions “do not tend to spread or cause metastasis” as is the case with “more serious” cases of skin cancer such as melanoma or squamous skin carcinomas. .
However, he admitted that this type of cancerous lesions can grow in size and generate more significant problems that require intervention beyond surgical removal.
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