{"id":46288,"date":"2025-09-05T05:49:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T05:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=46288"},"modified":"2025-09-05T05:49:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T05:49:41","slug":"joe-biden-has-surgery-to-remove-skin-cancer-lesions-in-latest-health-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2025\/09\/05\/joe-biden-has-surgery-to-remove-skin-cancer-lesions-in-latest-health-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden has surgery to remove skin cancer lesions in latest health challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/joebiden\">Joe Biden<\/a>&nbsp;recently underwent surgery to remove skin cancer lesions, a spokesperson said Thursday, the latest health challenge for the former president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His spokesperson Kelly Scully confirmed the surgery after Inside Edition published video of Biden leaving church in Delaware with a fresh scar on his forehead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She said Biden received Mohs surgery, a procedure used to cut away skin until no evidence of cancer remains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two years ago, while Biden was in office, he had a lesion removed from his chest. The lesion was basal cell carcinoma, a common form of skin cancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In March, Biden\u2019s office announced that he had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer that had spread to his bones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCancer touches us all,\u201d Biden wrote on social media at the time. \u201cLike so many of you, Jill and I have learned that we are strongest in the broken places.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Biden family has faced cancer repeatedly over the years. Biden\u2019s son Beau died of a brain tumor, and his wife, Jill, had two cancerous lesions removed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Biden&nbsp;recently underwent surgery to remove skin cancer lesions, a spokesperson said Thursday, the latest health challenge for the former president. His spokesperson Kelly Scully confirmed the surgery after Inside Edition published video of Biden leaving church in Delaware with a fresh scar on his forehead. She said Biden received Mohs surgery, a procedure used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":46289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[5178,1221,6537,4024,5262,10309,5241,5455,12634,2471,4054,3805,10722,11963,5349,9210,6348,8033],"class_list":["post-46288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-biden","tag-cancer","tag-church","tag-common","tag-cut","tag-delaware","tag-died","tag-family","tag-health","tag-joe-biden","tag-kelly","tag-president","tag-removed","tag-skin-cancer","tag-social-media","tag-surgery","tag-us","tag-video"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46290,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46288\/revisions\/46290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}