On Wednesday, doctors removed two cancerous growths from US First Lady Jill Biden, who is “feeling fine” after her surgery, they said.
“All the tissues cancéreux ont été retirés avec succès (…) We all surveyors of the zone pendant sa guerison, but we don’t take precautions that other procedures are necessary”, declared the president’s doctor Kevin O’Connor dans a note.
A “small lesion” on Jill Biden’s left eyelid was “completely removed” and “sent for standard microscopic examination,” it added.
During the procedure, doctors discovered another lesion on the left side of Jill Biden’s bust, which also turned out to be cancerous and was removed.
The First Lady “feels good”
The First Lady presented “swelling on her face and bruises” after the operation but “she feels fine,” Kevin O’Connor said, specifying that she would return to the White House “later in the day.”
Accompanied by her husband Joe Biden on Wednesday she had boarded the Marine One presidential helicopter in the morning to go to the Walter Reed military hospital near Washington.
The White House confirmed that he had a “planned outpatient surgical procedure, known as Mohs surgery.”
This procedure, which is carried out under local anesthesia, is considered extremely effective in eradicating skin cancer formation, if carried out early enough.
Oldest First Lady in United States history
Presidential physician Kevin O’Connor announced the finding on January 4, “during a routine examination for skin cancer, (of) a small lesion (…) over the First Lady’s eye.”
“As a precaution, the doctors recommended removing it,” the doctor wrote in a letter released by the spokesperson for the “First Lady,” Vanessa Valdivia.
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
