US Vice President Joe Biden appeared to have claimed on Wednesday that he has cancer, but the White House has since clarified that he was actually referring to a diagnosis of skin cancer he had before taking office that has since been treated.
Biden mentioned growing up adjacent to several oil refineries in his native state of Delaware while discussing climate change in the US state of Massachusetts. He said that these facilities were to blame for the region’s ubiquitous pollution.
He underlined the need to move away from fossil fuels and said, “That’s why I and so many many other people I grew up with have cancer, and why, for the longest time, Delaware had the highest cancer rate in the nation.”
The president was talking to skin tumours that were removed prior to his taking office, according to White House spokesman Andrew Bates.
Prior to becoming president, Biden had “many localised, non-melanoma skin tumours excised,” according to a review of the president’s health published in November. It was also noted that there were no “areas suspicious for skin cancer at this time.” It also said there was no need for biopsies.
Bates wrote on Twitter, “This is what the President was talking to.”
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