Friday letters: Massacres, HPV vaccine, President Carter

Carter said that he would make a more complete public statement when more facts were available – possibly next week.

Former president Jimmy Carter has been given a diagnosis of cancer.

Carter, a Plains native who is the only Georgian to have served in the White House, revealed Wednesday afternoon that he has cancer and that it had spread to other parts of his body.

Carter says he will rearrange his schedule to be treated at Emory Healthcare.

Over the past 90 years of his lifetime, our understanding of cancer and options for cancer therapies have made incredible advances.

Carter’s failure to secure their release, compounded by a failed military rescue attempt, would dog his presidency and scuttle his bid for a second term.

Stand outside the pharmacy and peer across Main Street to see the train station that was Carter’s presidential-campaign headquarters in 1976. “Will be praying for him and his family”.

The Carter Center says they will announce more about his cancer.

The former president, whose Carter Center observed Nepal’s last elections in 2008, arrived last week to encourage political parties to conduct delayed national elections and to push forward a peace process following the war.

Carter was the nation’s 39th president, defeating Gerald Ford in 1976 with a pledge to always be honest. Mr Carter has an extensive family history of cancer, his father and three siblings all died of pancreatic cancer, a disease that was also found in his mother. “Jimmy, you’re as resilient as they come, and along with the rest of America, we are rooting for you”, he added.

Jimmy Carter at a book signing for “A Full Life: Reflections At Ninety” at Vroman’s Bookstore on July 30, 2015 in Pasadena, California. He was defeated for re-election in 1980 by Republican Ronald Reagan. Doctors also might advise Carter to join a clinical trial, which gives all cancer participants the current standard of care plus a chance to try something new. I am certain the dedicated team of physicians, scientists and nurses at the Winship Cancer Institute at Emory University will do their utmost to help achieve just that. This is possible under the government of a Board Trustee that includes educators, business experts, former government officials and prestigious philanthropists. He’s kept active despite his age, working with groups such as Habitat for Humanity and founding the nonprofit Carter Center in his home state of Georgia.