Jimmy Carter, ex-U.S President who turned 100, survived brain cancer for 9 years; here's how he did it
Jimmy Carter discussed his cancer diagnosis and treatment during a press conference held nine years ago at the Carter Center in Atlanta.
Jimmy Carter, who was 91 years old at the time, gave an explanation of how a severe cold in May of the previous year prompted a complete physical, which in early August of 2015 revealed the presence of melanoma, a very serious form of skin cancer. During his liver surgery earlier that month, medical professionals found four areas on his brain where the cancer had metastasized.
He would have had roughly six months to live if his diagnosis had been made a few years earlier. Rather, the former president commemorates his 100th birthday on Tuesday.
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Naturally, luck had a part in it. Experts assert that there is no doubt that the immune therapy he received is the reason he is still alive today. Dr. Stephen Hodi, who oversees the Dana-Farber Brigham Cancer Center in Boston's Melanoma Center and Center for Immuno-Oncology, said that it's kind of a trite term, but in so many ways, he's kind of the poster child for immune therapy. There were so many issues that he exemplified as a patient. The therapy was a brand-new tool in the cancer fighter's toolbox back then.
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