Jimmy Carter Says He’s Being Treated for Cancer in Brain
Former President Jimmy Carter said he has melanoma in his brain, and that he will receive radiation treatment for the cancer starting Thursday while scaling back work for his philanthropic foundation.
Former US president Jimmy Carter, a member of The Elders group of retired prominent world figures, waves as he arrives for a meeting with Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas on May 2, 2015 in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
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Former President Jimmy Carter said he will scale back his work for the Carter Center, his international philanthropic foundation, while undergoing treatment for melanoma that has spread to his brain.
“They had a very high suspicion then and now that the melanoma started somewhere else on my body and spread to my liver,” Carter, 90, said at a news conference Thursday at the Carter Center in Atlanta.