Carter: Cancer is gone!

Former President Jimmy Carter said Sunday his cancer is gone.Carter said in a statement that his most recent MRI brain scan did not reveal any signs of the original cancer spots or any new ones and that he’ll continue his treatment.

Carter, 91, initially made the announcementnear the beginning of the Sunday School class he was teaching at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains,a close friend and fellow church member said.

 “He said he got a scan this week and the cancer was gone,” Jill Stuckey said by phone from Maranatha, where Carter was still in the midst of teaching to about 350 people, many of them visitors. “The church, everybody here, just erupted in applause.”Even one of Carter’s closest friends had no idea the news that was coming — which only added to her sense of gratitude as the news filled the little church.

“It’s like getting the biggest Christmas gift that you could ever want,” said Jan Williams, who spends the hour before Carter’s class humorously instructing visitors on the do’s-and-don’ts of being around their famous teacher. “This week was just horrible in the world in terms of all the bad things happening. How wonderful in the midst of all this to get such wonderful, encouraging news.”
 
 

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