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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.

In a marvelous – if not miraculous – turn of events, the 91-year-old former USA president announced Sunday that his cancer is gone.

President Carter will receive scans on his whole body every three months for at least one year after the tests reveal no lesions.

As we have previously reported, immunotherapy is a recent cancer treatment trend in which doctors use forces within a patient’s own body to fight the disease.

“These drugs are expensive to test. They’re expensive to develop. Once you understand what is going on in the cancer at a biochemical level or a molecular level, you can accelerate and have tremendous progress”. “If Mr. Carter can do it, I, too, can beat cancer to serve the Filipino people”, she said in a statement on Tuesday.

They said when the former president received his diagnosis, he did not feel sorry for himself and instead handled it with no stress and went through all of his treatments. Carter is undergoing radiation and immune-based drug treatment for metastatic melanoma at Emory University’s Winship Cancer Institute.

“The majority of patients can tolerate these drugs extremely well, even patients of an advanced age”, Lichtenfeld said. We can never say 100%, but this is definitely a very good response. “I am perfectly at ease with whatever comes”, said Mr. Carter during a news conference”.

“What’s interesting is they are not only effective in treating Melanoma, they have turned out to be effective for other cancers and recently been approved in treatment in lung, stomach, neck and other cancers”, said Lichtenfeld.

But Demopoulos noted that Keytruda also is a very new drug, with the first results of its clinical trial published in The Lancet in 2014.

Immune therapies aim to “unmask” cancer cells, so that the body recognizes them as the unsafe killers that they are, Shepard said.

And to add more to that, the Keytruda has been found to have lesser side-effects compared to chemotherapy. He stayed an active volunteer of Habitat for Humanity and persisted to work at The Carter Center, a human rights group that he established after his presidential stint.