Jill Stuckey, a Maranatha Baptist member, said Carter arrived with his wife, Rosalynn, greeted the roughly 300 people at his Sunday school class, then shared the scan results.
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Former US President Jimmy Carter says latest test shows no cancer spots. He received a round of radiation targeting those tumors and doses of Keytruda every three weeks.
Carter announced Sunday that doctors found no sign of the four lesions on his brain discovered this summer.
Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter once again provided an update on his health today, saying that his most recent scans showed no cancer. The FDA has approved seven new drugs for the disease since 2011, four of them immune therapies and three “targeted” drugs for particular types of melanoma.
One cancer expert who is not involved in Carter’s treatment said Sunday that, generally speaking, advances in radiation treatment of metastatic melanoma in recent years have led doctors to expect such positive results.
Doctors will continue to scan Carter’s brain and the rest of his body to ensure the disease hasn’t spread, Johnson said. Therefore, Carter said that he has good news to share.
Being created to boost Carter’s immune system and help his immune system to fight melanoma, the drug doesn’t have “the bad side effects” that treatments of the past had, according to Curran. By November, Carter said he was responding well and the cancer was showing no further signs of growth. “It’s very different from traditional chemotherapy”.
The Atlanta Braves baseball team congratulated Carter on Twitter, writing “We are so happy to hear that you are cancer-free, Mr President!”
Carter has remained active during treatment, volunteering on a building project with Habitat for Humanity and continuing to work at The Carter Center, the human rights organization he founded after leaving the White House. Carter said that he has not fallen ill or felt uncomfortable after taking the cancer treatment, as it can happen sometimes. So that part of it has been a relief to me and I think to the doctors.
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The crowds have since calmed, but on Sunday, people could be found from Wisconsin, Australia and South Korea, said Boze Godwin, the mayor of Plains, who was at church with Carter and has known him for decades.
