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Clinton has cancer removed
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A LESION removed from US President Bill Clinton last week was cancerous, but doctors said it was an extremely mild type of cancer and has been totally removed, the White House said on Tuesday.
During Clinton's annual medical check-up last Friday, doctors discovered what they called a “small, suspicious skin lesion” on Clinton's back. They removed tissue from the area for tests.
“The pathology results that were read this morning confirm that the lesion was a superficial basal cell skin cancer,” spokesman Jake Siewert told reporters at the daily White House briefing, adding that the lesion appeared to have been completely removed.
Former US President Ronald Reagan had small growths, which were found to be the same type of skin cancer that Clinton has been diagnosed with, removed from his nose in 1985 and 1987.
If a basal cell lesion is not removed, the cancer can spread, but unlike melanoma — a more deadly form of skin cancer — basal cell carcinoma does not spread to other parts of the body.
Siewert said Clinton no longer technically had skin cancer, since the lesion was completely removed last Friday.(SD-Agencies)
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