Posted on 03/03/2023 3:52:24 PM PST by EBH
A skin lesion removed from President Joe Biden’s chest last month was a basal cell carcinoma — a common form of skin cancer — his doctor said Friday, adding that no further treatment was required.
Dr. Kevin O’Connor, the White House doctor who has served as Biden’s longtime physician, said “all cancerous tissue was successfully removed” during the president’s routine physical on Feb. 16. Biden, 80, was deemed by O’Connor to be “ healthy, vigorous” and “fit ” to handle his White House responsibilities during that physical exam, which comes as he is weeks away from launching an expected bid for reelection in 2024.
O’Connor said the site of the removal on Biden’s chest has “healed nicely” and the president will continue regular skin screenings 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 they don’t tend to spread like other cancers, but could grow in size, which is why they are removed.
Dr. Kevin O’Connor, the White House doctor who has served as Biden’s longtime physician, said “all cancerous tissue was successfully removed” during the president’s routine physical on Feb. 16. Biden, 80, was deemed by O’Connor to be “ healthy, vigorous” and “fit ” to handle his White House responsibilities during that physical exam, which comes as he is weeks away from launching an expected bid for reelection in 2024.
O’Connor said the site of the removal on Biden’s chest has “healed nicely” and the president will continue regular skin screenings as part of his routine health plan.
Basal cells are among the most common and easily treated forms of cancer — especially when caught early.
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Amazing...we may get rid of him via cancer before dementia. Who would have guessed?
I bet this is a residual affect from the oil cancer he beat.
affect should be effect.
Please, please, please metastases, please!
Did that lesion have any blond hairs?
“basal cell carcinoma — a common form of skin cancer”
Lots of people get them. He’s 80 years old. This won’t stop him from running again.
I thought that thing above his shoulders was the cancer.
My brother and my husband’s grandfather had the same issue years ago. Many people do. It’s one of the most curable forms of cancer.
If it recurs, it can be more difficult; but Biden will probably be ok regarding this.
Like ‘Casper the Friendly Ghost’, basal cell carcinoma is the kind of cancer you want if you have to have cancer. It’s mild and easily taken care of. I had such a lesion removed from my face a number of years ago. It was likely a gift from many years spent baking in the sun in my youth.
First glance I read “lesbian” removed from his chest.
Mohs surgery?
You thought correctly. 😆
The lesion is safe now that the Biden has been removed from it. :)
The usual response is that the doctors found the only part of Joe Biden that wasn’t cancerous and removed it ...
“ Mohs surgery?”
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Yes. In my youth I never thought part of my ear would become part of my nose. 🙀🤣
I wouldn’t wish that on anybody.
Oil cancer?
“Oil cancer”?
They do all consider oil to be a cancer.
Husband’s grandfather had to have part of his nose shaved off in his 60s; then again in his 70s. He lived into his nineties.
(It was ok; he was Italian and had a very big, proud beak :-)
I never met him until he was quite old - but he was still a very handsome old man.
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