Former president Jimmy Carter has announced he has been given a diagnosis of a spreading cancer that was detected by recent liver surgery. “Recent liver surgery revealed that I have cancer that now is in other parts of my body,” Carter said in a statement released by the Carter Center. “I will be rearranging my schedule as necessary so I can undergo treatment by physicians at Emory Healthcare.”
The statement also states Carter's cancer is widely spread but not where it originated, or even if that is known at this point. The liver is often a place where cancer spreads and less commonly is the primary source of it. The statement said further information will be provided when more facts are known, “possibly next week.”
Carter has a family history of the disease; father and 3 siblings died of pancreatic cancer, which was later also found in his mother.
