He said: “This is the hands of God my worshipper and I’ll be prepared for anything that comes.”
Over the course of several months between August 2015 and February 2016, Carter underwent surgery, radiation therapy, and a new kind of immunotherapy treatment.
In March 2016, ABC News received the following email from a spokesperson at the Carter Center: “President Carter said today he did not need any more treatments, which he had August 2015 through February 2016, but will continue scans and resume treatment if necessary.”
Remarkably he is still alive today – which experts claim is mostly down to the effects of the immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab.
In the US, the drug was first introduced back in 2010. Talking to ABCNews, Doctor Lichtenfiel, deputy chief medical officer for the American Cancer Society said: “Five years ago we would not have much to offer the president.”
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