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Family friend grateful President Carter is cancer
Posted On Dec 07 2015
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Jill Stuckey who attended the service Sunday and is also a Carter family friend said when the former president made his announcement the church erupted in applause. “There have been instances of relapse two to three years in while using immunotherapy treatment, but you’d say there is a good reason to be quite optimistic”.
August 20: Saying he’s hopeful and “surprisingly at ease”, Carter holds an extraordinary press conference where he announces that doctors found four small melanoma lesions in his brain.
“Doctors will continue to scan Carter’s brain and the rest of his body to ensure the disease hasn’t spread, Johnson said”. “There’s no question it’s very positive”, Flaherty said of Carter’s scan.
Melanoma of the skin is the sixth most common type of cancer in the USA, and is estimated to account for 73,870 new cases of cancer in 2015.
It was not immediately known when the scan took place, or when Carter received the news from his grandfather.
Standing before 200 people at his church in Georgia, Carter told the crowd: “When I went this week, they didn’t find any cancer at all”. “The best Christmas present we could ever receive”.
It’s not clear what other scans Carter’s doctors at Emory University’s Winship Cancer Institute have performed.
The Carter Center said in a statement then that Carter’s “original problem is responding well to treatment”.
Mr. Carter’s treatment with a three-weekly dose of Keytruda will continue, along with further scans incorporating much of his body to check for signs of the cancer spreading. Carter announced in late August that he was battling melanoma. He was strong enough in early November to help build a Habitat for Humanity house in Memphis, Tennessee.
The crowds have since calmed, but on Sunday, people could be found from Wisconsin, Australia and South Korea, said Boze Godwin, the mayor of Plains, who was at church with Carter and has known him for decades. Sunday school class Sunday that he is cancer-free, the Atlanta Journal-Constitutionreported.
