Former President Joe Biden sparked concern after he was seen with a massive gash on his head while greeting people in Delaware over Labor Day weekend.
Shocking footage shared on social media showed the frail 82-year-old sporting a noticeably red wound across the front of his head, partly hidden by his white hair, while leaving a church in Rehoboth Beach.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was a little surprised cause it\u2019s a noticeable scar,\u201d Fred Karger, who filmed the video and shared it to X Tuesday,\u00a0told Inside Edition, which first broke the news Thursday<\/a>.
\u201cI was a little surprised cause it\u2019s a noticeable scar,\u201d Fred Karger, who filmed the video, told the outlet.
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\u201cIt looks fresh, a little hair combed over the scar. It looks to me like someone who had several basal cells, skin cancers removed from his head.\u201d
Biden recently underwent Mohs surgery, a procedure used to treat skin cancer, his rep told The Post Thursday.
The surgery removes thin layers of skin one at a time, sparing the healthy tissue around it, until all cancerous cells are gone, according to the Mayo Clinic. <\/a>
While it’s unclear when he went under the knife, Biden was seen with a bandage in late August as he arrived at the funeral for former Delaware Gov. and Rep. Mike Castle at St. Joseph on the Brandywine Church in Greenville.
The 46th president previously had a cancerous skin lesion removed<\/a> from his chest after a physical in February 2023, which turned out to be basal cell carcinoma.
He was diagnosed in May with an \u201caggressive\u201d form of prostate cancer<\/a> that has since spread to his bones.
Doctors found a \u201csmall nodule\u201d on Biden\u2019s prostate and other cancer cells during a medical exam \u2014 a Stage 4 diagnosis that went undetected by his medical team in the White House.
Biden\u2019s longtime physician, Dr. Kevin O\u2019Connor, deemed him \u201cfit to serve\u201d in February 2024 after the then presumptive Democratic nominee underwent a routine examination at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
News of his prostate cancer diagnoses sparked a firestorm of allegations that the erstwhile Biden administration and members of his inner circle knowingly hid his physical and cognitive decline from the American public.
The former president is currently undergoing treatment.<\/p>\n