The first lady's office says Jill Biden's surgery to remove a potentially cancerous lesion above her right eye is “proceeding well and as expected.”
The first lady and President Joe Biden remained at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, as of midafternoon. They had arrived by helicopter at about 8 a.m.
Her office announced a week ago that doctors had discovered the lesion during a recent routine skin cancer screening. She was to have a “common outpatient procedure known as Mohs surgery to remove and definitively examine the tissue,” said Dr. Kevin O’Connor, the president’s physician, in a Jan. 4 memo that the first lady’s office released last week.
Doctors recommended removing the lesion from the 71-year-old first lady “in an abundance of caution,” O'Connor wrote in the memo.said the delicate skin around the eyes is especially vulnerable to damage from the sun's ultraviolet rays. with the leaders of Mexico and Canada and the first lady met with women, children and her North American counterparts.that the White House described only as"common." Details were not provided. The president accompanied her to an outpatient center near the campus of George Washington University, and they returned to the White House after about two hours.punctured her left foot
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