The skin lesion removed from Biden's chest was cancerous, the doctor said Friday, adding that no further treatment was needed.

dr Kevin O'Connor, a White House physician who was Biden's longtime physician, said during the president's routine Feb. 16 physical that "all cancerous tissue was successfully removed." Biden, 80, was described as "healthy, energetic" by O'Connor; and "matches"; to handle White House duties during that inquiry, which comes just weeks before his scheduled re-election in 2024. He will continue to undergo regular skin exams as part of his routine health plan. Basal cell cancer is one of the most common and most treatable types of cancer, especially when caught early. 

O'Connor said they don't spread like other cancers, but they can get bigger, so they get removed. , Bidens had "multiple localized non-melanoma skin cancers"; it was removed from his body before he took office, O'Connor said in his presidential health briefing Feb. 16, noting that Biden was known to have spent a lot of time in the sun as a youth. 

 First Lady Jill Biden had two major lesions removed from her right eye and chest in January. 

She told the Associated Press last week that she is now "very careful" with sunscreen, especially on the beach. 

 Basal cell carcinoma is a slow-growing tumor that's usually confined to the surface of the skin doctors can almost always remove it completely with a shallow incision and rarely causes serious or life-threatening complications. 

 The Bidens have long supported the fight against cancer. Their adult son Beau died of brain cancer in 2015.