Former President Jimmy Carter: Cancer is 'gone'
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Jimmy Carter: I am cancer-free
Former President Jimmy Carter is cancer-free, according to a report by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. In August, the 39th president announced that he had cancer and that he was going to fight it.
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Former President Jimmy Carter told his Plains, Ga. Sunday school class Sunday that he is cancer-free, the Atlanta Journal-Constitutionreported.
“He said he got a scan this week and the cancer was gone,” Jill Stuckey told the newspaper. “The church, everybody here, just erupted in applause.”
Carter, 91, announced In August that he had cancer, but that he hoped it was limited to his liver. He later said doctors found small melanoma lesions on his brain. He received drug treatments and radiation therapy.
Carter’s grandson James Carter celebrated on Twitter: