In a marvelous – if not miraculous – turn of events, the 91-year-old former US president announced Sunday that his cancer is gone. The former President’s treatment regimen has also included surgery and radiation.
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.
The doctors found that the cancer has spread to four parts of his brain. He had been taking the treatment for melanoma, which included a targeted radiation therapy and immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab. “I have got thousands of friends and I have had an exciting and...
Former US president Jimmy Carter announced Sunday that his latest brain scan showed no sign of cancer, a few months after revealing that he had been diagnosed with melanoma that had spread from his liver to his brain.
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Carter had undergone treatment for cancer on the liver and said some time ago that the disease had spread to his brain. He then received four rounds of treatment with Keytruda (pembrolizumab), Merck’s anti-PD1 immunotherapy.
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But stereotactic radiosurgery focuses the beams better on the tumor, so it can kill the cancer cells more effectively while sparing the healthy ones. Carter notes that he missed various classes in May and June. The former president was also treated with radiation to his brain and...
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Last month, Carter, a devout Christian who teaches Sunday school at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, said he was responding well to treatment and there were no signs of further cancer growth. I am not cancer-free but I am surviving with it and basically doing well,”she...