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The Guardian - US
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Martin Pengelly

Joe Biden had cancerous skin lesion removed last month, White House says

Biden speaks on Friday before awarding the Medal of Honor to Paris Davis at the White House. The site of the biopsy had ‘healed nicely’, Dr O’Connor said.
Joe Biden speaks on Friday before awarding the Medal of Honor to Paris Davis at the White House. The site of the biopsy had ‘healed nicely’, Dr O’Connor said. Photograph: Bonnie Cash/UPI/Rex/Shutterstock

Joe Biden had a cancerous skin lesion that cannot metastasize or spread removed last month during his annual physical, the White House confirmed on Friday.

“The president had a skin lesion removed from his chest,” Biden’s physician, Kevin O’Connor, said in a letter released to the press.

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