Since Carter’s admission that doctors found melanoma spots on his brain earlier this year, people have traveled from across the country to watch him teach Sunday School, an activity he continued despite health issues, the Post reported.
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He would continue to receive regular three-week immunotherapy treatments of pembrolizumab, the statement said.
Mr. Carter says he will continue taking Keytruda every three weeks.
It’s not clear what other scans Carter’s doctors at Emory University’s Winship Cancer Institute have performed.
Former President Jimmy Carter announced that he is cancer-free in his hometown Sunday morning.
Carter began treatment in late August with the promising new immunotherapeutic drug pembrolizumab and targeted radiation therapy. It’s that celebratory responses built around Carter’s cancer being “gone” are in real danger of swamping an accurate understanding of cancer biology and of what many patients experience as they cope with cancer or cancer recovery.
“Keytruda blocks the cancer from telling the immune system to go away, by binding those receptors and preventing the cancer from flipping that off-switch”, he said.
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. “There’s no question it’s very positive”, Flaherty said of Carter’s scan.
Carter said his most recent MRI brain scan did not show any signs of the original cancer spots or any new ones.
Even among patients receiving advanced treatment, Carter’s apparent total remission is a rarity.
“Right from very beginning, I had a good feeling about the President’s prognosis”.
In August, Carter’s doctor Walter Curran Jr. said at a press conference that apart from radiation treatment, Carter also received injection of a drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration in February.
‘There’s no cancer in his body at this point, ‘ said James Carter. “I can’t think of a better Christmas present”.
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During his treatment, Carter volunteered on a building project with Habitat for Humanity and was also involved with work at The Carter Center, the human rights organization that he founded after leaving the White House.
