Former president Jimmy Carter discusses his cancer diagnosis

[waz]

Former president Jimmy Carter said that the cancer doctors discovered earlier this year on his liver has also been found on his brain. Carter, 90, said he will receive his first radiation treatment for the disease Thursday afternoon.

"I'm perfectly at ease with whatever comes," Carter said at a news conference.

Carter said Thursday that doctors found "four spots of melanoma on my brain -- small spots" after first discovering cancer during an Aug. 3 operation to remove a tumor from his liver.

During that surgery, Carter said, doctors suspected that the cancer had originated in another part of his body. They later discovered the melanoma spots, about "two millimeters" in size, on his brain.

Doctors removed about one-tenth of his liver during the surgery, which he said healed quickly and left him with "minimal pain."

He will undergo four courses of radiation to treat the cancer in his brain.

Carter said doctors will continue to scan his body for cancer, in an effort to determine where the melanoma originated.


Former president Jimmy Carter says cancer has spread to his brain - The Washington Post

 

[waz]

Your work for the good of the world, and humanity is exceptional. You are a marvellous statesman. Please get better Mr President. You are in my prayers.

 

[Steve781]

He wasn't a great president but he is a decent man, which is rare in politics.