Jimmy Carter says he has cancer, revealed by recent surgery

U.S. President and Georgia native Jimmy Carter revealed he has cancer on Wednesday.

Mr Carter, the 39th president, said: “Recent liver surgery revealed that I have cancer that now is in other parts of my body”. He says a more complete public statement will be issued next week when more details are known.

Democrat Mr Carter – who served as president from 1977 to 1981 – was awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize for for his “decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to global conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development”, according to judges.

Carter, 90, announced on August. 3 that he had had surgery to remove a small mass from his liver. He was defeated for re-election in 1980 by Republican Ronald Reagan.

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter says he has cancer and will undergo treatment at an Atlanta hospital.

“The National Institutes of Health began to check all members of our family regularly, and my last remaining sibling, Gloria, sixty-four, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and died in 1990”, Carter wrote.

President Carter is the second-oldest living President, and is 90-years-old.

“His operation proceeded without issues, and the prognosis is excellent for a full recovery”.