- President Biden had a cancerous skin lesion removed from his chest during his annual physical last month — but needs no further treatment, the White House revealed Friday.
- Biden physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor noted that the tissue was removed during the 80-year-old president’s checkup Feb. 16 at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland.
- “[T]he President had a skin lesion removed from his chest as part of his comprehensive health assessment,” wrote O’Connor, who gave Biden a clean bill of health in a five-page written report following the exam without taking any press questions.
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Lesion Removed From Biden’s Chest Is Cancerous, White House Says
Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, gestures during a campaign event in Burlington, Iowa, U.S., on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020. Biden is holding his lead in national polling just days ahead of the Iowa caucuses, but Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is keeping the gap narrow. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images
