Ex U.S. President Carter is now cancer free

Four months after former U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced that doctors had told him that four spots of cancer had spread to his brain, he announced on Sunday that his cancer is gone.
“My most recent MRI brain scan did not reveal any signs of the original cancer spots, nor any new ones. I will continue to receive regular three-week immunotherapy treatments of pembrolizumab,” Carter said in a statement.

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Carter, 91, first revealed the news in front of a Sunday school class he was teaching at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia.
Carter’s health announcement was first reported by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Stephanie Wynn, a 12-year member of the congregation, confirmed that Carter said he’d gone for an MRI last week, and the scan’s results showed that he is cancer-free. The congregation applauded the news, she said.

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