Former US president Jimmy Carter has revealed that doctors have found four spots of melanoma on his brain. He will receive radiation later today.
“I am going to cut back fairly dramatically on my obligations,” Mr Carter said, noting that his charitable organisation, the Carter Foundation, will continue to function as usual without him.
While he will continue to sign letters, he will have to slow down his fund-raising activities there.Mr Carter said he will continue “as best I can” to honour his duties as a professor at Emory University in Atlanta.
He said it was not clear where his melanoma, a kind of skin cancer, originated.
As for the brain cancer, he said it amount to four “very small” spots identified by his doctors in Atlanta. He said he was “quite relieved” when doctors earlier this month removed a mass from his liver, when news of his condition first became known.
But he said it was during a subsequent MRI scan of his neck and head that revealed the spots on the brain.Mr Carter, who is 90, has a family history of cancer.
At his press conference in Atlanta today he openly acknowledged that he expects that additional cancers in his body will be found.
