Jimmy Carter is Cancer Free
“You know, I have had a wonderful life”.
The Carter Center said in a statement then that Carter’s “original problem is responding well to treatment”.
A year after leaving the White House, he founded the Carter Center in Atlanta to promote healthcare, democracy and other issues. One of the ex president’s grandsons even made a joke about knowing that Carter would have to survive because “he wasn’t really human”.
Efforts to accomplish the church or Carter’s representatives were not immediately successful, and it wasn’t unclear whether he was referring to the cancer in his brain or everywhere.
In August, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate revealed that he had been diagnosed with brain cancer. “I missed two lessons because toward the end of May (and) first of June it was found that I had cancer, so they removed part of my liver”, he added.
On Sunday, Carter, the 39th president of the United States, had good news to share, according to a friend and fellow church member quoted by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
“But now I feel it’s in the hands of God, and I’ll be prepared for what comes”.
Carter’s health has been closely watched this year. “He’s not going to stop doing the treatment, but at this point, there’s no cancer”. He received a round of radiation targeted at those tumors and doses of Keytruda every three weeks. “I went running down the hall and got to spread the news”.
November 2: At a Habitat for Humanity project in Memphis, Carter said he was in good spirits and that he keeps up an active routine of bike riding, hiking in the woods and swimming in the covered pool located on their property in Plains.
The former Democratic president, known for his unassuming style, offered a quick smile as people who had come for the Sunday school class he teaches gasped and clapped.