After Thursday’s radiation, Carter said he will have four more treatments to be scheduled at three-week intervals.
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The immunotherapy drug, administered via an IV, will not only target cancer cells still lurking after Carter’s May liver surgery, but also any cancer cells that doctors haven’t discovered yet.
“I thought I just had a few weeks left”.
Mr Carter said he has received calls from President Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and both former presidents Bush.
Former President Jimmy Carter says his cancer has shown up in his liver and on his brain and that he will undergo radiation treatment.
“Jimmy Carter is well-known for his family history of pancreatic cancer”. His father and three siblings died of pancreatic cancer.
The 90-year-old, who was president from 1977-81, said that a tumour on his liver proved to be melanoma, which is typically a skin cancer. He has also told the CEO of Habitat for Humanity that he still hopes to travel to Nepal in November with the group, but that now depends on whether he can postpone the last of his radiation treatments. Carter even won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.
“I’m looking forward to a new adventure”, said the former president, who has become known for his humanitarian work in the years since leaving the White House.
Channel 2’s Lori Geary was at Carter’s news conference Thursday where he discussed his diagnosis. But he said research advances in treating cancer over the past two decades have made it possible for melanoma like Carter’s to be maintained in a way that’s similar to a chronic disease. He added that he underwent surgery to remove the tumour on his liver on 3 August. Melanoma is rarer and deadlier, with about 70,000 cases diagnosed a year, resulting in almost 10,000 deaths, said the American Cancer Society.
In a wide-ranging interview last month about his life with Reuters Editor-at-Large Sir Harold Evans, Carter reflected on his childhood in a home without running water or electricity and his concerns about ongoing racial prejudice in the United States.
“I’m perfectly at ease with whatever comes”.
“For a number of years, Rosalynn and I we had planned to dramatically reducing our work at the center, but we haven’t done it yet”, Carter said with a chuckle. I have deep religious faith, which I’m very grateful for, and I was pleasantly surprised that I didn’t go into an attitude of despair or anger or anything like that. After one term beset by economic problems, poor relations with Congress, and a hostage crisis in Iran, Carter lost the 1980 presidential election to Republican Ronald Reagan.
“You know, I have had a wonderful life”.
In global affairs, I would say that peace for Israel and its neighbors has been a top priority of my foreign policy projects for the past thirty years.
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Throughout his globe-trotting career, Carter has famously remained active in the Baptist church in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, population 700, about 250 kilometres south of Atlanta.
