Doctors have found Jimmy Carter is responding well to treatment for cancer, according to a statement released by the former US president’s spokeswoman on Tuesday.
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He said that doctors at Winship had found four spots of melanoma on his brain, in addition to a tumor on his liver, which they removed.
The Georgia native is being treated at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, where tests are expected to continue. He and his doctors said he would undergo treatment that would include four treatments with a promising new immunotherapy drug at three-week intervals, as well as stereotactic radiation.
“We couldn’t infer necessarily that the cancer is gone, but nothing is spreading, nothing is growing, nothing is worsening”, she said.
“He remains active at The Carter Center and just last week spent a day building homes in Memphis with his wife, Rosalynn, for Habitat for Humanity”.
Carter was the nation’s 39th president, defeating Gerald Ford in the wake of Richard Nixon’s resignation.
Carter has put his work for his eponymous nonprofit organization on hold.
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The former president had been planning to travel to Nepal this month for volunteer work, but the trip was cancelled due to “civil unrest” in the country.
