Former President Jimmy Carter said Sunday his cancer is gone.
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Carter’s unexpected comments Sunday came first at the small church where he frequently teaches Sunday school lessons in his hometown of Plains, Georgia.
The Nobel Peace Prize laureate said that when he went for an MRI this week, doctors didn’t find any cancer at all, adding that a lot of people had prayed for him and he appreciates that.
As mentioned above, Carter will continue the course of Keytruda every three weeks.
A friend and parishioner of Carter’s told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution the former president made the announcement towards the beginning of the Sunday school class he leads.
The 39th President of The United States said in a statement that he will continue to receive doses of Keytruda, a recently approved auto-immune drug to help his body seek out cancer cells in his body. “Circumstances may change over time or he may be in a situation where it does not recur for many years or at all”. Medical experts asked about Carter’s case say doctors will closely monitor Carter for any new signs of cancer, stressing that while the latest tests are encouraging, Carter has not necessarily been cured. “The majority of patients can tolerate these drugs extremely well, even patients of an advanced age”, Johnson said.
Carter, elected in 1976 and ousted in the 1980 election by Ronald Reagan, has a family history of pancreatic cancer – a disease that claimed his father, brother and two sisters. “It’s very different from traditional chemotherapy”.
Speaking to the A.P.in November, Carter revealed that his treatment process appeared to be going well and that to date he had not experienced any particularly unfortunate side effects.
At a Habitat for Humanity build in Memphis last month, Carter said he had completed his round of four treatments and was feeling good. “I haven’t been uncomfortable or ill after the treatments were over”.
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“I went to the doctors this week for the second time”, Carter said in a video posted on Twitter by NBC News. So that part of it has been a relief to me and I think to the doctors. Therefore, Carter said that he has good news to share.
