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US President Barack Obama arrives at the National Naval Medical Centre in Bethesda, Maryland (AFP/Jewel Samad)
Obama, 48, has fought a public battle to give up smoking, and promised his wife he would quit when he ran for president -- but has admitted succumbing to the occasional cigarette several times since moving into the White House.
The president visited the National Naval Medical Center in nearby Bethesda, Maryland for the routine check up.
He was also treated to a cat scan colonography in a screening for colorectal cancer, the second-leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States, and the results were negative.
African Americans have the highest rate of colon cancer and death from colon cancer of all demographic groups in the country, and at least two of the president's relatives, including his mother, died from cancer.
Obama last year said he was 95 percent cured from smoking and insisted he never lights up in front of his family.
"As a former smoker I constantly struggle with it. Have I fallen off the wagon sometimes? Yes. Am I a daily smoker, a constant smoker? No," he told a White House press conference in July.
Kuhlman recommended a follow-up exam in August 2011 after the president turns 50.
After the exam Obama visited soldiers being treated at the same facility who were wounded in the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The president visited the National Naval Medical Center in nearby Bethesda, Maryland for the routine check up.
He was also treated to a cat scan colonography in a screening for colorectal cancer, the second-leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States, and the results were negative.
African Americans have the highest rate of colon cancer and death from colon cancer of all demographic groups in the country, and at least two of the president's relatives, including his mother, died from cancer.
Obama last year said he was 95 percent cured from smoking and insisted he never lights up in front of his family.
"As a former smoker I constantly struggle with it. Have I fallen off the wagon sometimes? Yes. Am I a daily smoker, a constant smoker? No," he told a White House press conference in July.
Kuhlman recommended a follow-up exam in August 2011 after the president turns 50.
After the exam Obama visited soldiers being treated at the same facility who were wounded in the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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