WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden, 80, had a cancerous skin lesion successfully removed from his chest in February, his doctor said on Friday (Mar 3). The lesion, detected during a routine medical examination, was a basal cell carcinoma, which 'do not tend to 'spread' or metastasise,' Biden's physician, K
WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden, 80, had a cancerous skin lesion successfully removed from his chest in February, his doctor said on Friday .
The lesion was removed during Biden's annual medical checkup on February 16, after which the president was declared"fit for duty." He noted that basal cell carcinoma were generally more innocuous than"more serious skin cancers such as melanoma or squamous cell carcinoma." The checkup was the final one before an expected announcement by Biden, the oldest person ever to be US president, to declare he is running for reelection in 2024.
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