Former President Jimmy Carter, 90, has announced that he has several melanoma spots on his brain and will now go through radiation treatment, which follows a mass removed from his liver early in August.
“I’ll be prepared for anything that comes,” he said at a news conference in Atlanta.
Cancer, particularly pancreatic cancer, runs in his family. His father, both his sisters and his brother died of pancreatic cancer, and his mother had pancreatic cancer.
Since being president, Carter has worked extensively with Habitat for Humanity. As a result he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 and founded the nonprofit Carter Center in Georgia.
” I just thought I had a few weeks left. But I was surprisingly at ease. I’ve had a wonderful life, I’ve had thousands of friends, and I’ve had an exciting and adventurous and gratifying existence,” Carter said, according to NBC News. “So I was surprisingly at ease. Much more so than my wife was. But now I feel that you know that it’s in the hands of God and my worship, and I’ll be prepared for anything that comes.”
Following the news, a positive and uplifting Carter is sharing about his life, career and his experience after finding out he had cancer.
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