cancer was confined to his liver<\/a> and that the operation earlier this month had completely removed it, “so I was quite relieved.”<\/p>\nBut that same afternoon, an MRI showed it was on his brain.<\/p>\n
“I just thought I had a few weeks left, but I was surprisingly at ease. I’ve had a wonderful life,” the 90-year-old Carter said.<\/p>\n
He didn’t give any prognosis, but spoke about receiving treatments for at least several months and left open the possibility of traveling to Nepal in November.<\/p>\n
Carter announced Aug. 12 that liver surgery found cancer that has spread to other parts of his body. Doctors removed about 1\/10 of his liver during the surgery, he said. Carter said it’s still not clear exactly where the cancer originated.<\/p>\n
“So far the only place they’ve known about cancer has been my liver and my brain,” he said.<\/p>\n
His father, brother and two sisters died of pancreatic cancer. His mother also had the disease. Carter said no cancer has been found on his pancreas so far.<\/p>\n
Carter said President George W. Bush and Bush’s father called him Wednesday, and he has received well-wishes from President Barack Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton and Secretary of State John Kerry.<\/p>\n
That’s “the first time they’ve called me in a long time,” Carter said to laughter.<\/p>\n
Carter’s health has been closely watched this year. He cut short an election monitoring trip to Guyana in May. A spokeswoman said he did not feel well and Carter later said he had a bad cold.<\/p>\n
The center announced Carter had a small mass removed from his liver Aug. 3. Nine days later, Carter said that surgery revealed the cancer.<\/p>\n
Carter was the nation’s 39th president, advancing as a virtual unknown on the national stage to defeat President Gerald Ford in 1976. But several foreign policy crises, in particular the Iran hostage crisis, crushed his bid for re-election and Ronald Reagan swept into the White House.<\/p>\n
The native of tiny Plains, Georgia, rebuilt his career as a humanitarian guiding the center focused on global issues, including health care and democracy. Carter earned a Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, helped defuse nuclear tensions in the Koreas and helped avert a U.S. invasion of Haiti.<\/p>\n
He and his wife, Rosalynn, still make regular appearances at events in Atlanta and travel overseas. When the couple is in Plains, Carter frequently teaches a Sunday School class before services at Maranatha Baptist Church. He plans to teach this weekend as scheduled, according to the church.<\/p>\n
“No matter where we are in the world, we’re always looking forward to getting home to Plains,” Carter said.<\/p>\n
Previously….<\/p>\n
ATLANTA (AP) – Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter says he has cancer and will undergo treatment at an Atlanta hospital.<\/p>\n
Carter announced the diagnosis in a statement from the Carter Center on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Carter, 90, had surgery earlier this month to remove a small mass in his liver. He says in Wednesday’s statement that the surgery revealed the cancer.<\/p>\n
Carter says he will rearrange his schedule to be treated at Emory Healthcare. He says a more complete public statement will be issued next week when more details are known.<\/p>\n
Carter was the nation’s 39th president. After leaving the White House, he founded the center in Atlanta in 1982 to promote health care, democracy and other issues globally.<\/p>\n
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