Posted on 08/20/2015 8:23:22 AM PDT by lbryce
Former president Jimmy Carter said that the cancer doctors discovered earlier this year, on his liver, has spread to his brain and that 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, 90, 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 other parts 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, 90, announces that he has cancer]
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Yeah, I think I’ll need hotel reservations.
Buh Bye
I won’t miss him!!!
I guess I’m still getting over watching my dad go.
obamacare will save him.
“Why undergo surgery, chemo and all the other treatments at this age?”
To avoid finding out he has no place in Olam Ha-Ba.
Of course Jimmiah would never stoop to Obamacare, like the rest of the elites, he has enough money to go private pay full boat.
Remember when Carter, Kennedy and the rest of the democrats kept the Shah of Iran from coming to the United States to get treatment for his cancer?
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