President Biden had a small skin lesion with cancerous tissue removed from his chest.
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Imageshad a small skin lesion with cancerous tissue removed from his chest during his physical exam in February and"no further treatment is required," according to the White House physician.
The tissue was excised during a procedure at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland on Feb. 16 and sent for a traditional biopsy, Dr. Kevin O'Connor wrote in a letter released by the White House on Friday. Testing confirmed the lesion was basal cell carcinoma, the most common form of skin cancer.O'Connor noted that basal cell carcinoma lesions do not typically spread such as some more serious skin cancers like melanoma or squamous cell carcinoma.
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