Former US president Jimmy Carter told church parishioners in his native Plains, Georgia on Sunday that he is free of cancer, US media reported.
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The 91-year-old made the announcement near the beginning of the Sunday School class when he was teaching at Marantha Baptist Church in Plains.
“So a lot of people prayed for me, and I appreciate that”, Carter said. In a statement last month, the Carter Center said he was responding well to treatment and there was no evidence of new malignancy. “He said he got a scan this week and the cancer was gone”, Jill Stuckey said via phone from Maranatha, in an article by AJC.com.
Doctors removed a small mass in his liver in early August.
Hooray for that, and we wish Carter many more happy, healthy years.
More than perhaps any other cancer, melanoma has been transformed by the advent of immunotherapy treatments. But in this case, a combination of radiation treatments and a new immune-based therapy have raised the odds of survival, according to doctors and medical experts. “When I went [for an MRI] this week they didn’t find any cancer at all”.
Carter announced that he was free from his illness on December 6.
Dr. Marc Ernstoff from Cleveland Clinic’s Taussig Cancer Institute said that despite the 30 percent rate of people exhibiting significant reduction in cancer size, only about five percent are able to completely recover.
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In this November 1, 2015 photo, former President Jimmy Carter is interviewed at a Habitat for Humanity project site in Memphis, Tenn. On Sunday, however, he proudly said on Sunday that the cancer is absolutely gone away from his body. Carter, his wife Rosalynn, his children, and the country are relieved about the good news. Since leaving the White House, he has remained active, carrying out humanitarian efforts with his Carter Center, which focuses on human rights efforts and political mediation. “So that part of it has been a relief to me and I think to the doctors”.
