Former President Biden's recent prostate cancer diagnosis has sparked discussion about past comments he made regarding cancer. During a 2022 speech, he suggested local oil refineries contributed to high cancer rates in Delaware, using present tense language that led to confusion about his health status. Former White House spokesperson Andrew Bates clarified this reference to non-melanoma skin cancers. Despite previous removals of skin cancers due to sun exposure, no cancer diagnosis was mentioned in medical reports by former White House physician Dr. Kevin O'Connor. Bidenâs current diagnosis reveals the cancer has metastasized to his bone.
Biden's alarming comments came during a speech about emissions from oil refineries near his childhood home in Claymont, Del., and which he appeared to blame for his cancer.
Former White House physician Dr. Kevin O'Connor didn't describe Biden as having cancer in his medical reports of the 46th president from around that time.
Biden's use of the present tense 'have' raised eyebrows at the time, but former White House spokesperson Andrew Bates referred The Post to Washington Post fact-check honcho Glenn Kessler.
It is well-established that President Biden did spend a good deal of time in the sun in his youth," O'Connor explained in a 2021 report on the former president's health.
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