President Joe Biden speaks to reporters on the Capitol on Thursday.

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President Joe Biden speaks to reporters on the Capitol on Thursday.

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The outcomes from a biopsy executed on a pores and skin lesion faraway from President Biden’s chest final month confirmed that the expansion was basal cell carcinoma – a sort of pores and skin most cancers that doesn’t are inclined to unfold — White House doctor Kevin O’Connor mentioned in a memo on Friday.

“All cancerous tissue was successfully removed,” O’Connor mentioned in his memo, noting that the realm across the biopsy website had been handled on the time of Biden’s physical, which means that no additional therapy is required. He mentioned the biopsy website had “healed nicely.”

O’Connor mentioned basal cell carcinoma doesn’t metastasize, making it’s a “less serious” kind of pores and skin most cancers than melanoma or squamous cell carcinoma. But basal cell carcinoma can improve in dimension, making it more durable to take away, he mentioned.

First woman Jill Biden additionally had two lesions eliminated early this yr that had been confirmed to be basal cell carcinoma.