Jimmy Carter tells Sunday school class he has no signs of cancer

Jimmy Carter tells Sunday school class he has no signs of cancer

Since his diagnosis went public, fans of Jimmy Carter nationwide have made trips to see the former president teach Sunday school.

Former president Jimmy Carter informed a Sunday school class that there are no signs of cancer in his brain or liver, following a melanoma diagnosis, earlier this year.

The Washington Post reports that around 300 people were in attendance at the former president’s class. Carter informed attendees that he received a scan a week prior, in which “no signs of cancer” were found. The audience applauded with the news.

A statement was posted later Sunday afternoon on the Carter Center website. The statement quoted Carter saying, “My most recent MRI brain scan did not reveal any signs of the original cancer spots nor any new ones.” Former president Carter is expected to continue regular cancer treatments, despite his current cancer-free status.

On Aug.12, Carter had a small mass removed from his liver. Not long after the surgery, doctors found four melanoma spots on his brain. Since the melanoma diagnosis, Carter has undergone ongoing cancer treatment.

Since his diagnosis went public, fans of Jimmy Carter nationwide have made trips to see the former president teach Sunday school. The first lesson offered after his melanoma diagnosis drew an audience of almost 1,000 people, with some going as far as to sleep in their cars to wait for seats.

Doctors said last month that Carter was doing well with his treatments and that they had found no evidence of new cancerous tumors. Carter received a pembrolizumab, one of the first of a new type of drugs created to help the immune system fight cancer cells. The drug was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2014 as a treatment for advanced melanoma, with a significant improvement over other known treatments.

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