Carter revealed in August that cancer initially found in his liver had spread to four spots on his brain.
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A the ripe old age of 91, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has defeated cancer. “I will continue to receive regular three-week immunotherapy treatments of pembrolizumab”.
Former President Jimmy Carter credits the new cancer drug Keytruda for shrinking his brain tumors completely. “He’s not going to stop doing the treatment, but at this point, there’s no cancer”.
Jill Stuckey, a church member who helps organize Carter’s popular lessons, said in a phone interview that Carter told the congregation a brain scan this week showed no cancer.
“A lot of people prayed for me”, Carter said in the video of the event covered by NBC, “and I appreciate that”. The drug pembrolizumab is given to patients with advanced forms of cancer that can not be treated with other medications.
Last month, Carter, a devout Christian who teaches Sunday school at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, said he was responding well to treatment and there were no signs of further cancer growth. “I wanted to tell you the good news, because that happened this week”.
“If Carter is indeed cancer-free, his response to Keytruda has been better than that of most patients in the clinical trial that led the FDA to approve the drug”.
“Metastatic melanoma is a serious and potentially life-threatening illness”.
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Mr Carter, a one-time peanut farmer and former Georgia governor, served one term as president of the United States, from 1977 to 1981. “I knew he wasn’t really human”. “They were very small spots, about two millimeters”, he said.
