Jimmy Carter Brain Scan Shows No Cancer

Former President Jimmy Carter stunned everyone when he revealed Sunday morning at church that his latest MRI revealed that his cancer was gone.

Carter announced from The Carter Center in Atlanta that he was diagnosed with Melanoma that had spread to his brain. Freeman said in a statement released by his publicist Saturday that neither he nor his pilot was hurt after his plane blew a tire. He told those in attendance about his activities during the week prior, which included another MRI scan to track the progress of both his condition and his treatment. He received radiation therapy and doses of a newly approved drug to help his immune system seek out cancer cells.

“So a lot of people prayed for me, and I appreciate that”, Carter said. “So I have good news”. “There’s no question it’s very positive”, Flaherty said of Carter’s scan. “It really is an uncommon thing to have lesions of any size resolved so completely and so quickly”. A spokesman didn’t immediately return messages on Sunday, and Carter only mentioned a brain scan.

“For today, the news can not be better”, he said. “Circumstances may change over time or he may be in a situation where it does not recur for many years or at all”.

Antoni Ribas, a researcher at the University of California at Los Angeles and the lead investigator of a clinical trial of Keytruda, said in an interview Sunday that he was glad to hear of Carter’s apparent response but not surprised. The scans typically are done every three months, for a year or two after tests show no signs of cancer growth, he said.

Former President Jimmy Carter said on Sunday that brain scans have shown there are no longer any signs of the melanoma cancer that had spread to his brain. These drugs are quite different from traditional chemotherapy and most of the patients are able to tolerate it.

But the former peanut farmer built one of the most successful post-White House legacies, winning a Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 and remaining active into his ’90s in causes such as fighting disease in Africa and building homes for the poor.

Speaking to the A.P.in November, Carter revealed that his treatment process appeared to be going well and that to date he had not experienced any particularly unfortunate side effects.