US first lady Jill Biden will undergo surgery next week to remove a “small skin lesion” discovered on her face during a routine exam, her spokeswoman announced Wednesday.
This ambulatory surgery operation will be carried out on Wednesday, January 11, at the Walter Reed military hospital, near Washington, says the presidential doctor, Kevin O’Connor, in a letter made public by the spokesperson for the “First Lady”, Vanessa Valdivia. .
“During a routine skin cancer screening, a small lesion was discovered over the First Lady’s eye. As a precaution, doctors recommended that it be removed,” the doctor writes in his email.
The oldest First Lady in the country’s history
The tissues thus extracted will then be analyzed, he says. Jill Biden, 71, is the oldest First Lady in US history, while her 80-year-old husband is also the oldest occupant in White House history.
Cancer is a personal cause for Joe Biden, whose son Beau died in 2015 of brain cancer, and who made reducing the death rate from the disease a “presidential priority.”
Source: BFM TV
