President Joe Biden was diagnosed with skin cancer and underwent minor surgery to have the cancer removed early in 2023.

To celebrate almost a year of being cancer free, Biden was seen leaving his controversial week-long stay in the U.S. Virgin Islands seriously sunburned.

At 81-years-old and with a history of cancer in his own life and in his the family medical history, Biden’s decision to forgo sunscreen caused alarm bells to ring.

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Joe Biden returned from his lengthy vacation in the U.S Virgin Islands sporting a gnarly sunburn, just less than a year after having had surgery to treat skin cancer on his chest.

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Biden reportedly “looked red as all hell with an apparent case of sunburn on Tuesday,” wrote the Daily Beast.

The elderly president’s “striking new sunburn was on full display as he shook hands on the tarmac of Henry E. Rohlsen Airport in Christiansted, St. Croix, before boarding Air Force One with first lady Jill Biden,” The New York Post reported. “The sun’s rays apparently battered Biden, who was beet-red from his forehead to his neck — exposed by the deep V of his unbuttoned collar.”

A cancerous skin lesion removed from Biden’s chest in 2023 was a basal cell carcinoma — a common form of skin cancer — his doctor said at the time.

Dr. Kevin O’Connor, the White House doctor who has served as Biden’s longtime physician, said “all cancerous tissue was successfully removed” during the president’s physical in Feb 2023.

At the time, O’Connor said the site of the removal on Biden’s chest has “healed nicely” and warned that the president should continue regular skin screenings as part of his health plan.

Biden had “several localized non-melanoma skin cancers” removed from his body before he started his presidency, O’Connor said, and noted it was well established that Biden spent a lot of time in the sun during his youth without sunscreen.

First lady Jill Biden in January 2023 had cancerous lesions removed from her right eye and chest.

She said in an Associated Press interview last week that the Biden family are now “extra careful” about sunscreen, especially when they’re at the beach.

The Bidens have long been advocates for fighting cancer. Their adult son Beau died in 2015 from brain cancer.

 

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The Horn editorial team and the Associated Press contributed to this article