Surgery, drugs, radiation, comfort care. What's next for Jimmy Carter
depends on how widely his cancer has spread and where, and how
aggressively the 90-year-old former president wants to fight it.
Carter said Wednesday that surgery on Aug. 3 to remove a mass in his
liver revealed cancer that had spread to other parts of his body. He did
not say whether the cancer started in his liver, or even if the origin
is known. His father, brother and two sisters died of pancreatic cancer,
and his mother had it, too.
"There is clearly a family history of cancer, but we don't know if
that plays a role in his current situation," said Dr. Len Lichtenfeld,
deputy chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society.
"Recent liver surgery revealed that I have cancer that now is in other
parts of my body," Carter said in the statement. "I will be rearranging
my schedule as necessary so I can undergo treatment by physicians at
Emory Healthcare."
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