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Former US President Jimmy Carter says recent liver surgery revealed that he has cancer and it has spread to other parts of his body.



The 90-year-old statesman underwent surgery to remove a small mass in his liver earlier this month.

He said he would reveal more "when facts are known, possibly next week".

Mr Carter will undergo treatment by physicians at Emory Healthcare in Atlanta.

President Barack Obama wished Mr Carter "a full and fast recovery" in a statement released on Wednesday.

"Jimmy, you're as resilient as they come, and along with the rest of America, we are rooting for you," Mr Obama said.

Leaving the White House in 1981, he has remained active carrying out humanitarian efforts with his Carter Center in recent years.

He founded the centre, which focuses on human-rights efforts and political mediation, soon after he left office.

He was later responsible for negotiating a 1994 nuclear disarmament pact with North Korea and has visited Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in recent years.

A Democrat from Georgia, Mr Carter was elected president in 1976.

He won the Nobel Peace prize in 2002 for his commitment to finding peaceful solutions to international conflicts, his work with human rights and democracy initiatives and his promotion of economic and social programmes.

The BBC interviewed Mr Carter in February about his efforts to eradicate guinea worm disease and in the South Sudan and Mali and river blindness in both Africa and Latin America.

He said then he was happy to still be travelling and doing work across the globe.

But in May, he returned early from a trip to observe elections in Ghana because he was "not feeling well".

Mr Carter has been recently promoting his latest book, A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety, which was released in July.

Jimmy Carter announces he is cancer-free

Washington (CNN)Jimmy Carter's cancer is gone, the former president announced on Sunday.

"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.

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 Carter's comments to CNN.

According to Wynn, 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.

"bitter" definitely does not seem like a word that could be used to describe Jimmy Carter.

Lord Jim wrote:

"bitter" definitely does not seem like a word that could be used to describe Jimmy Carter.

Are you kidding?

Carter has never gotten over his bitterness about the American people's massive rejection of him in favor of Mr. Reagan; he's absolutely obsessed over it...(he even expressed it in the press conference where he discussed his cancer... ) He's also very bitter about the fact that while Mr. Reagan is widely considered a great President, he is considered as, well, not...

He becomes flustered and annoyed anytime anyone suggests that he's thought of as a better "former President" than "President", and immediately begins to talk about how (in his delusional mind) he was really quite a splendid President...He's the poster boy for "Legend In His Own Mind"...

And oh yes, he's also bitter that Presidents and secretaries of state don't come rushing to him for his wise counsel, (something else he expressed in that press conference, in a shot at Kerry)

He's extremely bitter that he doesn't get the kind of respect and regard that he believes is his due. It comes through almost every time he is interviewed or speaks in public.

"Bitter" is the very first word that comes to mind when I think of TIC...(Well, that and "incompetent" and "arrogant" of course)

It will make television news pretty much unwatchable...

Lord Jim wrote:"Bitter" is the very first word that comes to mind when I think of TIC...(Well, that and "incompetent" and "arrogant" of course)

Guinevere wrote:"...

And why do you care so much? Talk about bitter.....

Oh and yeah, Jimmy Carter's 28-year-old grandson died suddenly over the weekend. Want to run that vomiting head again?
http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/20/us/jimmy- ... son-death/

I've never heard nor read an interview with him which sounded bitter.

Lord Jim wrote:

I've never heard nor read an interview with him which sounded bitter.

Try listening without the ass-kiss filters in your ears.

Econoline wrote:

Lord Jim wrote:

I've never heard nor read an interview with him which sounded bitter.

Try listening without the ass-kiss filters in your ears.

I agree with rubato on this (but you already knew that). Maybe you should try listening without the Reagan-worshipping filters in yours.