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Jill Biden on Friday brought pizza to the crew of the USS Gabrielle Giffords, served dessert to military kids and talked about her recent skin cancer scare as she urged people to get annual screenings.
The first lady had a packed schedule on the first day of her three-day trip to California, which focused on her favorite causes: her Joining Forces program and the Bidens' Cancer Moonshot initiative. She'll cap it off with an appearance at Grammy Awards on Sunday night.
She arrived in San Diego on Friday afternoon to visit a cancer clinic ahead of World Cancer Day, which is on Saturday.
The cancer fight is personal to the Biden family. The first lady recently had a skin cancer scare of her own, having Mohs surgery to remove lesions on her eyelids and chest. She was subsequently pronounced cancer free by the White House doctor.
She addressed the issue for the first time on Friday and used her experience to urge people to get cancer screenings of their own.
'Cancer touches us all - the Bidens are no exception. You know, I've lost several family members to cancer. And, actually I just recently had a bout with cancer myself that I've just experienced,' she said.
Jill Biden, at a cancer clinic in San Diego, talked about her own recent skin cancer scare to urge people to get their screenings
President Joe Biden and Jill Biden restarted their Cancer Moonshot initiative when they entered the White House. It has the goal of reducing the cancer death rate by half within 25 years and improving the lives of people with cancer and cancer survivors.
Their son Beau Biden died of brain cancer in 2015. But Jill Biden began her advocacy in 1993, when four of her friends were diagnosed with breast cancer.
'Really early detection is the key and a lot of cancers, a lot of cancers are curable,' she noted.
'And people don't need to be scared like they - I mean, you're always scared when you hear the word cancer but they don't need to be afraid like people were 10 years ago, because now things have advanced so far.'
She then made a stop at the San Diego Naval Base to bring pizza to the crew members of the USS Gabrielle Giffords. Biden was headed to a dinner with the crew and their families but wanted to bring food to those who were on duty and couldn't make it.
She switchd her high heels for snazzy blue sneakers so she could climb the ladders as she toured the littoral combat ship.
The ship was named after former Rep.
