Former president Jimmy Carter told a large Sunday school class he was teaching that he is cancer-free, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Sunday morning.
“He said he got a scan this week and the cancer was gone,” the Journal-Constitution quoted Jill Stuckey as saying. “The church, everybody here, just erupted in applause.”
The Associated Press quoted Carter’s grandson as saying that no cancer was detected in the latest scan.
BREAKING: Jimmy Carter's grandson: Former president says no cancer was detected in his latest scan.
— The Associated Press (@AP) December 6, 2015
Carter, 91, had a small cancerous mass removed from his liver on Aug. 12, and shortly afterward doctors found four spots of melanoma on his brain. He has been in treatment since.
Efforts to reach the church or Carter’s representatives weren’t immediately successful, and it wasn’t clear whether he was referring to the cancer in his brain or everywhere.
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The former president splits his time advocating for change on a grand scale and teaching Sunday school class in small-town Georgia. Carter is cancer-free, his grandson told AP.
Fans of the former president have been making pilgrimages from across the country to see him teach since he announced that he was being treated for brain cancer. His first post-cancer lesson drew drew nearly 1,000 people to a church built for a few hundred, and people slept in their cars to wait in line for limited seats.
His doctors reported last month that he was responding well and that they saw no evidence of new tumors, the Associated Press reported.
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