Biden's doctor confirms that a carcinoma was removed from his chest last month

Kevin O'Connor, doctor of the president of the United States, Joe Biden, confirmed this Friday that the president had a basal cell carcinoma removed from his chest during surgery last month.

O'Connor explained in a memo that the biopsy confirmed that the small lesion Biden suffered was basal cell carcinoma, one of the most common types of skin cancer, as reported by the White House.

The doctor has stressed that the area was treated during the biopsy, "it has healed very well" and that it does not require further treatment. "The president will continue dermatological surveillance as part of his ongoing comprehensive medical care," he stressed.

Biden, who is 80 years old, already expressed before the mid-term elections last November that, despite the fact that "he could drop dead tomorrow", the important thing is his energy, and thus stressed that it was "totally legitimate" for Americans judge him by his state of health.

"In terms of how much I can do, I think people should look and say, 'Do you still have the same passion for what you're doing?'" Trump said in an interview on MSNBC broadcast by The Hill.

In recent months, the debate on Biden's state of health has been revived after various videos were released in which he appears disoriented. Despite this, the US president maintains his desire to aspire to a second term in the White House, although by then he would already be 81 years old.

Biden, who became the oldest person to assume power in the United States in 2020, has previously indicated that he can maintain the same demand in his position, citing the regular trips he makes both nationally and internationally. .

Tradition establishes that whoever sits in the Oval Office does so for eight years, or at least aspires to do so, so the fact that Biden resigned 'motu proprio' to re-election would be a milestone in American politics and could to some extent mark the path of alternative Democratic candidates.