Deputy White House Press Secretary Andrew Bates clarified what US President Joe Biden said about his cancer.
According to Bates, Biden, when talking about his "cancer" during a speech in Massachusetts, was referring to non-melanoma skin tumors that he had previously had removed.
"That's what the president [Biden] meant," the deputy White House press secretary noted on Twitter, pointing to a post by The Washington Post editor Glenn Kessler. The journalist advised reading the US leader's medical report, which refers to the extraction of non-melanoma skin tumors. In addition, the document does not report that the US president has been diagnosed with oncology.
Speaking in Massachusetts to address the effects of climate change, Biden talked about "getting cancer" because of the pollution situation in Delaware, where he spent his childhood in the middle of the last century.