{"id":399224,"date":"2025-09-05T06:03:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T06:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/399224\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T06:03:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T06:03:12","slug":"joe-biden-has-skin-cancer-surgery-months-after-aggressive-prostate-cancer-diagnosis-us-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/399224\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden has skin cancer surgery – months after ‘aggressive’ prostate cancer diagnosis | US News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former US president Joe Biden has had surgery for skin cancer, his spokesperson has said.<\/p>\n

It’s unclear when he had the procedure, but video from late August showed him leaving church in Delaware with a large, fresh scar on his head.<\/p>\n

The spokesperson told Sky’s US partner, NBC News, that he was recovering well.<\/p>\n

Mr Biden<\/a><\/strong> had Mohs surgery, which involves removing a layer of tissue, examining it under a microscope to see if any cancer cells remain, and repeating if necessary.<\/p>\n

The 82-year had a basal cell carcinoma, one of the two most common skin cancer types, removed from his chest in 2023.<\/p>\n

His doctor said at the time that all the cancerous cells had been removed.<\/p>\n

The same year, Mr Biden’s wife, Jill, had two basal cell carcinomas removed from near her eye and on her chest.<\/p>\n

The former president also revealed this May that he had stage-four prostate cancer<\/a><\/strong> – with the disease having spread to his bones and having a Gleason score of nine.<\/p>\n

Such a score means the disease is “likely to grow quickly”, according to Cancer Research UK.<\/p>\n

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His office said the prostate cancer was discovered when Mr Biden visited a doctor for urinary symptoms and that he was considering “multiple treatment options”.<\/p>\n

“While this represents a more aggressive form of the disease, the cancer appears to be hormone-sensitive which allows for effective management,” said a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former US president Joe Biden has had surgery for skin cancer, his spokesperson has said. It’s unclear when…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-399224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115150180138139203","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}