Biden says Jill is 'doing really well' after surgery for cancerous lesions trends now

President Joe Biden said on Thursday that his wife Jill is 'doing really well' after her outpatient surgery to remove lesions from her face and chest. 

The president, who spent around eight hours at Walter Reed National Military Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland on Wednesday with the first lady, said she was under anesthesia for about five hours for her Mohs surgery.

Jill Biden returned to the White House late Wednesday night to recover after having three lesions removed - with at least two of them determined to be cancerous.

The president said she is 'doing really well. She was under a long time, for five hours. What they were doing is remove the moles, remove what they thought might be cancerous and test it and see what it was.'

'She is up. We had breakfast this morning and she is recovering,' the president said.

White House Dr. Kevin O'Connor said in a memo Wednesday the first lady is experiencing facial swelling and bruising after going to the hospital to have a lesion from above her right eye, which was confirmed to be basal cell carcinoma.

The president said she is feeling some soreness.

'She will be sore for a while because of the work they did on her eyes and -- that's where one of these were. But she has a 0 to 1% chance of the return of any cancer so thank God she is doing really well,' he said.

During the surgery, doctors also excised a lesion from Jill Biden's left eyelid and sent it in for microscopic examination to determine if it was cancerous.

They also found a lesion on her chest, which appeared to be basal cell carcinoma, and doctors extracted. They later confirmed it was that type of skin cancer. 

'All cancerous tissue was successfully removed,' O'Connor said. 

Jill Biden thanked the hospital staff for their care.

Her spokesperson Vanessa Valdivia said in a statement on Wednesday night that the first lady was 'doing well and in good

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