Former President Jimmy Carter announced he has been diagnosed with cancer in a brief statement issued Wednesday.
Recent liver surgery revealed that I have cancer that now is in other parts of my body.
— Jimmy Carter.
The statement released by the Carter Center also said about his treatment plan.
I will be rearranging my schedule as necessary so I can undergo treatment by physicians at Emory Healthcare.
— Jimmy Carter.
The statement makes clear that Carter’s cancer is widely spread, but not where it originated, or even if that is known at this point. Further information will be provided “possibly next week.”
Carter, 90, announced on Aug. 3 that he had surgery to remove a small mass from his liver. He 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.
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