Former President Jimmy Carter revealed Wednesday he has cancer that has spread throughout his body.
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It is unclear if Carter’s cancer originated in the liver, or where it has metastasized within his body.
Carter announced the diagnosis in a statement from the Carter Center on Wednesday afternoon. “I will be rearranging my schedule as mandatory so I can undergo treatment by physicians at Emory Healthcare”.
“Given the president’s age, any treatments, their potential and their impacts, will undoubtedly be discussed carefully with him and his family”, Lichtenfeld said. “The likelihood is that this is a cancer from outside the liver, but we don’t know for certain”.
The press statement, which was shared on the Carter Center’s website, also noted where Carter will be receiving further care.
In his worldwide pursuits, he ran afoul of several of his presidential successors as he criticized their policies and went on peace missions without the approval of the White House.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with Rosalynn and the entire Carter family as they face this challenge with the same grace and determination that they have shown so many times before”, the president said in a statement. “There’s work around identifying treatment for the patient’s individual cancer and doing it at a genetic level”.
“This is a 90-year-old gentlemen with apparent widespread disease”. Much depends on the patient’s “biological” age versus his actual years, he said. For example, Moffitt has developed a scoring system to estimate how well an older person would tolerate chemotherapy and the risk of serious side effects.
“Michelle and I send our best wishes to President Carter for a fast and full recovery. He exercises, he eats right, that’s how he’s gotten to be 90 and (still) going to different continents”, said Stuckey, who helps manage the crowds of visitors at Maranatha Baptist Church when the former president gives lessons.
But Carter’s health has been the subject of periodic speculation, including in May, when he cut short a visit to Guyana because, according to his office, he was “not feeling well”. Quite a lot of foreign analysis conflicts doomed his bid for a 2nd term, & Carter lost to Ronald Reagan in a landslide.
In 2008, he told CNN’s Larry King, “If you’ve got pancreatic cancer, you die”. But a person’s risk can be raised by a number of factors, including family history, experts note.
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In 2007, Carter told the New York Times that he had Connecticut scans twice a year and later MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) to look for tumors in his pancreas. Early last week, he revealed he had surgery to remove a small mass from his liver.
