Jill Biden, the first lady, underwent surgery to have two cancerous tumors removed from her breast and eye.
Dr. Kevin O’Connor, the doctor for President Joe Biden, released a press release to share the information.
According to O’Connor’s records, Dr. Biden performed an outpatient Mohs surgery at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center “to remove and analyze a tiny lesion above her right eye.”
The lesion was eventually identified as a basal cell carcinoma, the most common type of skin cancer according to the Skin Cancer Foundation.
Additionally, O’Connor said that “all malignant tissues was effectively removed” and that he will “watch the area attentively as it heals.” There were no skin cancer cells at all in the margins.
She won’t need any extra surgery, in his opinion.
The first lady’s left eyelid was discovered to have “a well-circumscribed, tiny lesion” during the treatment. O’Connor said that it was successfully taken out and “submitted for routine microscopic analysis.”
Additionally, doctors found a lesion that contained basal cell cancer. O’Connor declared that it had “effectively been eliminated.”
In contrast to more deadly types of skin cancer like melanoma or squamous cell carcinoma, basal cell carcinoma lesions are not known to “spread,” the expert said.
They might grow and get harder to get rid of, according to O’Connor.
Jill Biden will return to the White House “later today,” according to O’Connor. Jill Biden “is experiencing some facial swelling and bruising, but is in excellent spirits and is feeling well,” he added.
O’Connor stated in a press release that the lesions were discovered by medical workers “during a routine skin cancer screening” in an email to Valdivia earlier this month.
The American public received a statement from Biden on World Cancer Day in which he said: “Life is busy. In addition to everything else that has been going on in our lives over the past two years, there has been a global epidemic. In addition to job, family, commuting, and errands, there is a never-ending list of things to accomplish.
I get it,” she remarked. The last thing you want to do or have time for is a cancer screening. However, I beg you to temporarily put your health before anything else on this World Cancer Day. You might have skipped a pap smear, colonoscopy, mammogram, or any other essential cancer screening during the past two years of the epidemic, but if you’re like millions of other Americans, cancer doesn’t stop for COVID.
Given this, Biden said, “If you’ve put off going to the doctor, schedule your appointment as soon as possible. Don’t wait any longer.
The first lady and her family have publicly discussed how cancer has touched their lives since the terrible death of the president’s son Beau from a brain condition in 2015 and pushed others to work toward reducing the suffering it causes.
She wrote in her most recent letter, which she signed “XO, Jill,” that “Cancer hits all of us in some manner, and it doesn’t care whether you’re busy.”
