White House physician Kevin O’Connor said in a memo on Friday that the findings of a biopsy performed on a skin lesion removed from President Biden’s chest last month verified that the growth was basal cell carcinoma, a type of skin cancer that does not typically spread.
O’Connor stated in his memo that “all cancerous tissue was successfully removed,” adding that since the region around the biopsy site had already been treated during Biden’s physical, no additional therapy is necessary. The biopsy site had “healed beautifully,” according to him.
Basal cell carcinoma, according to O’Connor, is “less severe” than melanoma or squamous cell carcinoma because it does not spread. The problem with basal cell carcinoma, however, is that it can spread and become difficult to eradicate, as he explained.
A biopsy verified that two lesions on the first lady’s face were basal cell carcinoma, and they were surgically removed in the beginning of the year.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the two most prevalent types of skin cancer in the US are basal and squamous cell carcinoma (CDC).
According to the Skin Cancer Foundation, it is the most common type of cancer, with 3.6 million Americans receiving a diagnosis each year. If caught early enough, it is slow-growing, treatable, and doesn’t do much harm.
Basal and squamous carcinoma “both can usually be cured, but they can be disfiguring and costly to treat,” the CDC states. Melanoma, another common skin cancer, can spread to other areas of the body.
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