For Carter and former first lady Rosalynn Carter, Plains is a “haven” from their work in Atlanta and around the globe, he has said. He was scheduled to begin radiation treatment later the same day. Christie did not.
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.
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...
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”.
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.
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.
In discussions with the New York Times, Carter’s aides and advisers said they expect the former president to face his diagnosis with the same determination as he brought to the presidency, as well as his life afterwards.
Former US President Jimmy Carter announced Wednesday that a recent medical intervention has revealed that he was suffering from cancer and that it had spread to other organs. I will be rearranging my schedule as necessary so I can undergo treatment by physicians at Emory Healthcare.
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter promotes his book “Full Life: Reflections at Ninety” at Barnes & Noble, 5th Avenue on July 7, 2015 in New York City.