Little alert for Joe Biden. The 80-year-old US president, who is thinking of running again, underwent surgery in February for a “small” skin lesion, which was found to be cancerous after examination, his doctor said on Friday, indicating that “all cancerous tissue had been successfully removed. It is a basal cell carcinoma.
The cancerous lesion, detected and removed during the US President’s routine medical examination on February 16, is of a nature that “does not tend to spread or cause metastasis”, the practitioner specified in a report made public by the White House, adding that “no further treatment was necessary”.
If he does run, Joe Biden’s state of health, physical and cognitive, will be one of the central elements of the 2024 presidential election. Biden, who is already the oldest US president in office, would be 86 years old at the end of a possible second mandate.