Former US President Jimmy Carter says that cancer has spread to his brain - Polidicks

[url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/08/20/former-president-jimmy-carter-says-cancer-has-spread-to-his-brain/]Source[/url] [quote]Former president Jimmy Carter said that the cancer doctors discovered earlier this year on his liver has also been found on his brain. Carter, 90, said he will receive his first radiation treatment for the disease Thursday afternoon. [b]"I'm perfectly at ease with whatever comes," Carter said at a news conference.[/b] Carter said Thursday that doctors found "four spots of melanoma on my brain -- small spots" after first discovering cancer during an Aug. 3 operation to remove a tumor from his liver. During that surgery, Carter said, doctors suspected that the cancer had originated in another part of his body. They later discovered the melanoma spots, about "two millimeters" in size, on his brain. Doctors removed about one-tenth of his liver during the surgery, which he said healed quickly and left him with "minimal pain."[/quote] [img]http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/1bd1ba36150663a178ca6575fb6f2faa2505e7bf/c=341-0-3944-2709&r=x404&c=534x401/local/-/media/2015/08/20/USATODAY/USATODAY/635756654260324518-EPA-USA-JIMMY-CARTER-CANCER.jpg[/img] [quote]Carter is the second-oldest living president, separated by just over 100 days in age from George H.W. Bush. Carter, the 39th president, served in the White House from 1977 to 1981. After his presidency, he has continued his humanitarian and human rights work through the Carter Center. It was for that work that he was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. For now, he noted that his cancer treatment will become his "top priority." "The Carter Center is well prepared to continue on without any handicap," Carter noted. [b]Several members of Carter's immediate family -- his brother, two sisters, his mother and father -- have all died from cancer.[/b][/quote] [img_thumb]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/JimmyCarterPortrait2.jpg[/img_thumb][img_thumb]http://www.cartercenter.org/resources/images/gallery/highres/Jimmy-Carter-headshot.jpg[/img_thumb]

Saw his statement on TV. I can only hope I'm half as sharp and physically able as he is at 90.

[QUOTE] Several members of Carter's immediate family -- his brother, two sisters, his mother and father -- have all died from cancer. [/QUOTE] Holy shit. This is what you can call a bad genes...

[QUOTE=Megalan;48503731]Holy shit. This is what you can call a bad genes...[/QUOTE] He's 90, anyone who can live that long has fantastic genes

[QUOTE=Megalan;48503731]Holy shit. This is what you can call a bad genes...[/QUOTE] My grandmother and her siblings all died from the same kind of cancer.

[QUOTE=Laserbeams;48503801]He's 90, anyone who can live that long has fantastic genes[/QUOTE] He's also an ex-president with a ton of money.

Usually with people who live that long, good genes or not, its cancer that tends to get them. Its one of the many components of age-related decay/sickness you can't really fight off even somewhat like we can with other problems. Unfortunate, former President Carter seems to be really trying to do well with his fame/money :c

I can see him kicking ass another 5~ years as crazy as it sounds. The man is a champ, he's going to be receiving top-tier medical care due to his former presidency and money, and he carries a hearty mentality and approach. I think he's still got some time left in him. Hoping he does, at least. He's a nice guy.

He seems pretty calm about it. Well, if you are in your 90s, or hell 100s, having cancer is basically "ah fuck it, i lived my life anyways"

[QUOTE=Megalan;48503731]Holy shit. This is what you can call a bad genes...[/QUOTE] That or working with industrial pesticides and herbicides for 40-50 years, I mean he had to have been exposed to some of the bad ones we don't use today, his family were all farmers at some point [editline]20th August 2015[/editline] It's crazy how much hate people still have for him, my father was joking about how the cancer must have been what makes him so loopy, the guy wasn't the best president but Regan Democrats hate this guy with a passion