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Three days after he revealed to the world that a deadly form of cancer had spread from his liver to his brain, an energetic Jimmy Carter shared a short and simple Sunday School lesson about love with a record number of people who started lining up at dawn to hear the former...

A visitor walks near a cutout of former President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, at an antique mall in Carter’s hometown of Plains, Ga., Sunday, August 23, 2015.

Folks couldn’t wait to hear President Jimmy Carter speak.

But this Sunday’s lesson – Carter’s 689th, according to his grandson Jason – commanded attention far beyond the worshippers who packed the pews and overflow rooms in the wake of the revelation that the 90-year-old Carter is battling cancer. Carter joked at...

Showing an incredible amount of optimism for a 90-year-old man facing cancer, former president Jimmy Carter detailed his health situation while addressing reporters Thursday from the Carter Center in Atlanta.

Jimmy Carter told a press conference he called on the morning of the day he would have the first radiation treatment on the cancer in his brain, “I’d like for the last guinea worm to die before I do”.

“At first, I thought it was confined to my liver and that the operation had completely removed it, so I was quite relieved”, Carter told reporters in Atlanta Thursday.

At a press conference on Thursday, former President Jimmy Carter discussed his biggest accomplishments and regrets in light of his cancer which he announced has spread to his brain.

Former US President Jimmy Carter might have cancer in his brain but he certainly does not have cancer on the brain.

Carter, in a remarkably candid discussion with reporters, detailed the spread of melanoma cancer to his liver and brain, spoke of his legacy and regrets, and flashed his megawatt smile as he let loose a few quips. He announced August 12 that surgery found cancer that has spread...

Five years ago, the prognosis for someone with advanced melanoma in the brain and liver would have been very poor, surgical oncologist Jeffrey Gershenwald, medical director of the Melanoma and Skin Center at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, told the New York Times.

Former United States President Jimmy Carter revealed Thursday his cancer has now been spread to brain too that was first discovered as a tumor on his liver.

And on October 1, Carter will turn 91.

“I was just completely at ease”. “It’s in the hands of God”, he said. And I will be prepared for anything that comes. He said other family members may have to represent him there.

Ahead of a news conference for Jimmy Carter to publicly discuss his recent cancer diagnosis for the first time, his family has gathered and a single chair is placed behind a cloth-covered table, presumably for the former president to give his remarks.