Jimmy Carter: No signs of brain cancer after treatment

BY SINCLAIR BROADCAST GROUP Former President Jimmy Carter says he is now cancer-free, according to reports.

Jimmy Carter has formally announced in that his newest scan showed no signs of cancer.

Former President Jimmy Carter announced Sunday that he is cancer free.

Carter, who served as the 39th USA president from 1977 to 1981 and received the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, is considered a symbolic figure on the Korean Peninsula nuclear and peace issues.

The 91-year-old, who fought hard to beat cancer this year, made the announcement in front of his fellow parishioners in Plains, Georgia, after which the crowd was ecstatic – as they should be!

“I went to the doctors this week for the second time”, Carter said in a video posted on Twitter by NBC.

Antoni Ribas, a researcher at UCLA and the lead investigator of a crucial clinical trial of Keytruda, said in an interview Sunday that he was glad to hear of Carter’s apparent response but not surprised.

It’s not clear what other scans Carter’s medical team at Emory University’s Winship Cancer Institute have performed.

“For today, the news cannot be better”, Lichtenfeld said. As in August, Carter again mentioned the specifics of his care, saying that he would continue to receive intravenous infusion of the immunotherapy Keytruda (pembrolizumab) every three weeks. He promised, however, to keep receiving regular treatments for his melanoma.

Though the new immunotherapies show great promise in the treatment of many cancer types, one concern has been the cost of immunotherapy.

It might seem surprising that Carter’s age did not work against him.

During an August news conference, Carter explained after removing a lesion on part of his liver, doctors also discovered four small cancerous lesions on his brain. “We’re unleashing the immune system with these drugs”, by removing the molecules that block it, “but there has to be an immune system to unleash, an immune system that’s ready to attack the cancer”.