On a Habitat for Humanity build last week in Memphis, former President Jimmy Carter said he was feeling good and that his cancer treatment was progressing well.
On Tuesday, his medical team made it more official in a release sent out by the Atlanta-based Carter Center.
“President Carter has received good news from his Winship Cancer Institute doctors,” the statement said. “They tell him that recent tests have shown there is no evidence of new malignancy, and his original problem is responding well to treatment.”
Carter, 91, announced in August that he had been diagnosed with melanoma, a skin cancer that had progressed to his brain and liver. Doctors discovered four small spots of melanoma on his brain but told Carter they were treatable.
Carter was supposed to go to Nepal last week for Habitat’s annual Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project — which would have delayed his last of four scheduled treatments with a promising new drug. When the trip was canceled due to civil unrest there, Carter said in Memphis, his doctors “went ahead and gave it to me.”
Tuesday’s statement gave little indication about what’s next for Carter, saying only that “further tests will continue.”
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