Jimmy Carter: I Have Cancer
The Carter Center said on Aug. 3 that doctors at Emory University Hospital had performed an elective procedure on Mr. Carter “to remove a small mass in his liver.” At the time, Mr. Carter’s office said that “the prognosis is excellent for a full recovery.”
Mr. Carter, who left the White House in 1981, has been among the most active figures in American public life, but his health has been the subject of some speculation in recent months. On May 10, Mr. Carter cut short a visit to Guyana because he was “not feeling well.” But concerns about his condition faded after he appeared in public two days later.
4:45pmEDT – Breaking via ABC News:
Click here for reuse options!Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter says he has cancer and will undergo treatment at an Atlanta hospital.
Carter announced the diagnosis in a statement from the Carter Center on Wednesday afternoon.
Carter, 90, had surgery earlier this month to remove a small mass in his liver. He says in Wednesday’s statement that the surgery revealed the cancer.
Carter says he will rearrange his schedule to be treated at Emory Healthcare. He says a more complete public statement will be issued next week when more details are known.
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Mike August 12th, 2015 at 16:51
Too bad…hope ya make it Jimmy.
Robert Kennedy August 12th, 2015 at 17:54
I too have liver cancer and while my treatment hasn’t completely ended it, it isn’t growing any longer (for now) and I feel quite OK. Hope the same goes for him. His biggest mistake as president was that because he is totally honest he assumed others were too.
eyelashviper August 12th, 2015 at 18:04
Wishing you well, and hopes for a complete recovery.
You are so right about Carter, he was as honest and direct with the American people, and was maligned for doing so…then we got Reagan.
Suzanne McFly August 12th, 2015 at 18:04
I am sorry to hear about your diagnosis and I hope you continue to heal. Sending you positive thoughts.
Robert Kennedy August 13th, 2015 at 00:56
Thanks all. I didn’t mean to seek sympathy since I have no apparent symptoms from it. No pain or anything and a much too good appetite. But maybe you might wish to send Jimmy a card. He’s done way better with his life than I.
katkelly57 August 13th, 2015 at 02:36
You don’t know that you haven’t done well with your life….some of us tend to be too hard on ourselves, myself included…it may not be apparent to you right now or maybe never…. however, there are those who think you’re a good person..it might not have been spoken out loud in your presence…you’d be surprised the good things people say/think about you.
We’re mere mortals and perfection is not ours, we’re always a work in progress….keep progressing and keep your head to the sky.
CandideThirtythree August 13th, 2015 at 13:22
You are so sweet! I wish we could send you a card.
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Suzanne McFly August 13th, 2015 at 16:13
President Carter has done better than the majority of us. I know you are not looking for sympathy, but I just know it feels good to know people are wishing you well and there are times that are right for expressing those wishes, I felt this was one of those times.
Mike August 12th, 2015 at 18:05
I wish you the best of luck with your battle…cancer of any kind is serious, a major organ like the liver is exponentially worse.
Jimmy might not have been a great president, but he is our greatest ex president….he’s dedicated his life to helping people of all stripes.
William August 13th, 2015 at 00:17
Best wishes in your struggle. Please kick cancers ass. It has taken so much from so many.
Robert Kennedy August 13th, 2015 at 00:54
Thanks, I appreciate that. I have had it for 8 years now and frankly I feel no effects from it. I contracted it from a transfusion which gave me Hep C back in ’81 when they had no test for it in blood supplies and they called it Non-A, Non-B. Everyone told me how unlucky I was and I just told tem it could just as easily have been AIDS and I’d be dead now. Of course now that it has become cancer they have a cure for C. But they also have a new cure for Ebola and that’s great. I’ll try not to get that anyway. ;o)
tracey marie August 12th, 2015 at 17:21
Hope you get better soon, the world will be a darker place without you.
Aunt Pee August 12th, 2015 at 17:30
What an amazing man with an amazing list of accomplishments. Let’s hope for a quick and solid recovery.
eyelashviper August 12th, 2015 at 17:41
This is just heartbreaking news. According to the news, the cancer has spread, so it does not sound very positive.
I have always admired this wonderful man and his wife. He put a face of ethics and humanity in the White House, and was often hounded for it. His honesty about the state of the nation and the world was well needed, but it was an excuse for the right to attack him.
He never looked back, but continued to work for the good in all the decades since, and has made thousands of lives far better.
I hope he knows that he is beloved, valued, and admired.
My best thoughts to him and his beautiful family.
DogsRgoodpeople August 12th, 2015 at 17:54
I respect a Christian that attempts to emulate Christ, as opposed to the majority of modern American Evangelicals that prefer the Old Testament .
KABoink_after_wingnut_hacker August 12th, 2015 at 18:00
A great and compassionate man who has done so much for humanity.
jstsmlbrlcnsrvtvguy August 12th, 2015 at 18:12
I somewhat bought into the lies about J.C. (was years before I even came to appreciate that the Faux News, et al…(* News…). or what Mrs. Clinton called the “vast right wing conspiracy”, was all too real).
Not that his reputation needs rehabilitation…, but hope that, whether he checks out tomorrow or twenty-one years from now, he leaves knowing this country just might be back on the kind of course he might want for us (and that his fine work was not for naught).
Larry Schmitt August 12th, 2015 at 18:23
I checked the Fox site to see if there were any comments. They have the story under politics. What does an ex-president revealing he has cancer got to do with politics? No comments yet. I’ll check again later. Curious to see how the rabid right wing reacts to this story.
jstsmlbrlcnsrvtvguy August 12th, 2015 at 20:33
me too.
jasperjava August 12th, 2015 at 20:36
FOX seems conscious of its image these days. I wouldn’t be surprised if they blocked comments on this story, hoping to avoid the nasty comments from their right-wing audience.
jstsmlbrlcnsrvtvguy August 12th, 2015 at 20:57
me2
jstsmlbrlcnsrvtvguy August 12th, 2015 at 21:00
to descend into the tawdry world of politics, I wonder how Alan feels about Bernie Sanders’ candidacy. and also whether this site is bought and paid for by R. Murdoch…or by Alan /Inc.)
Angelo_Frank August 12th, 2015 at 18:44
What a shame Americans didn’t appreciate what a good president they had in Jimmy Carter and turned around and elected that actor fellow who managed to to do irreparable damage to this country. All the best for a solid recovery President Carter.
bobrobertson August 12th, 2015 at 19:38
Somehow I just know this is Obama’s fault.
dewired4u August 12th, 2015 at 20:03
I read a quote from him and he was talking about life after being president and he said when people wave to him now they use all their fingers. A class act I wish him well.
NW10 August 12th, 2015 at 20:47
Best of wishes to Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter. As someone who lost someone young to cancer, it is NO joke.
Um Cara August 12th, 2015 at 21:14
One of my very few heroes, the only politician on that list. My very most sincere good wishes for the president and his family. Bums me out to think of such a great person suffering.
Tim Coolio August 12th, 2015 at 22:40
Despite the well known economic woes the country faced
under Carter (thanks to the mess he inhearited from Ford
and Nixon) the U.S. economy still added 8 million new jobs
from 1977 to 1980! that’s more new jobs under 4 years of
Carter than under 12 years of both Bush presidents
combined, also under Johnson’s tenure, the economy created
10 million new jobs! and don’t forget that Carter
inherited an enormous deficit from Nixon / Ford, the
legacy of the Nixon tax cuts, also in the 70s the high
inflation started under republican Ford, he even had
campaign buttons that said WIN or “whip inflation now”
William August 12th, 2015 at 23:56
Some people profess great faith in a carpenter who spent his time on earth being kind, compassionate and merciful.
Others actually walk the walk.
fahvel August 13th, 2015 at 00:33
one of the finest socially minded people the usa has had since maybe fdr. giver, not a taker.
Tommie August 13th, 2015 at 00:48
Sad to hear that, i don’t care what side of politics you are on, that sucks!!
Kalifornia August 13th, 2015 at 01:23
I wish him all the best. I just finish hearing radio news. His family lineage had history pancreatic cancer.
katkelly57 August 13th, 2015 at 02:40
Mr. Jimmy,
Keep on fighting the good fight!
I personally have always admired you and think of you as a hero….you’ve set such a wonderful example for all…regardless of politics and religion…you’ve been a warrior for the underdog and you’re light shines bright and true.
Bravo Zulu sir from a fellow shipmate….Godspeed with your treatment and recovery.
rg9rts August 13th, 2015 at 04:34
Thoughts and prayers for you