By Kanishka Singh and Steve Holland
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden had a skin lesion faraway from his chest in February that was a basal cell carcinoma – a typical type of skin cancer – and no additional treatment is needed, White Home doctor Kevin O’Connor mentioned on Friday.
All cancerous tissue was efficiently eliminated, the White Home doctor mentioned in a letter, including that Biden will proceed dermatologic surveillance as a part of his ongoing healthcare however the web site had healed.
Final month, medical doctors declared Biden, 80, wholesome and “match for obligation” after a bodily examination. They mentioned on the time {that a} small lesion had been faraway from his chest and despatched for a biopsy.
O’Connor mentioned within the letter that basal cell carcinoma lesions don’t are likely to unfold or metastasize.
Biden’s well being is below shut scrutiny as he prepares for an anticipated run for a second presidential time period in 2024. His spouse Jill Biden has mentioned he plans to run, though a proper declaration of the president’s intentions has but to be made.
Whether or not Biden – already the oldest American president ever – needs to be the social gathering’s candidate is a supply of debate amongst Democrats.
Biden’s three-hour session with medical doctors in February at Walter Reed Nationwide Army Medical Heart within the Washington suburb of Bethesda, Maryland, was his second intensive examination since taking workplace in January 2021.
(Reporting by Kanishka Singh and Steve Holland in Washington; enhancing by Diane Craft and Rosalba O’Brien)
