Former President Jimmy Carter announced he has been diagnosed with cancer in a brief statement issued Wednesday.
“Recent liver surgery revealed that I have cancer that now is in other parts of my body,” Carter said in the 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 makes clear that 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. It said further information will be provided when more facts are known, “possibly next week.”
Carter announced on Aug. 3 that he had surgery to remove a small mass from his liver.
Carter, 90, was the nation’s 39th president. After leaving the White House, he founded the center in Atlanta in 1982 to promote health care, democracy and other issues globally.
He has remained active for the center in recent years, making public appearances at its headquarters in Atlanta and traveling overseas including a May election observation visit to Guyana cut short when Carter developed a bad cold.
Carter Center spokeswoman Deanna Congileo called the surgery earlier this month “elective” and said Carter’s “prognosis is excellent for a full recovery. She declined to answer further questions at the time.
(AP)
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Interesting photo that was chosen for the article, no??
Finally some good news
Picture was perfectly chosen. He can now go to where his old pal is.
Boruch Hashem
Couldn’t happen to a nicer person
הודו לה’ כי טוב כי לעולם חסדו !!!!
…בנפול אויבך אל תשמח
Okay so I basically I agree with the first three comments. But he was still the president and still deserves some minimal pathetic amount of respect. Remember what they say, “not everything your think should you say”.
Long over due.
Does it not say somewhere בנפול אויבך אל תשמח?
I thought Carter is a canecer
If he can hold out for another month, frum civil servants will save a day of vacation time they would have to use since the government closes for presidential funerals. If he arranges to have a funeral on yuntuf, all will be forgiven.
Ninety years too late.
Maybe we’ll get lucky and Hillary will be next very soon.
Yes it does say that but it also says באבוד רשעים רינה. I’ll let the Rabbi’s explain the difference but there is definitely place for joy now.
bavod reshaim RINA!
To etzhar
״כן יאבדו כל אויבך ה״
If I’m not mistaken, the gemara in Maseches Megilah explains that for a Yid we say
“בנפול איבך אל תשמח,”
But for a goy we say
“באבוד רשעים רנה”.
“Not everything one thinks — should one say. Not everything that is said — should be written. And not everything that is written — should be published.” As true now as it was when it was originally promulgated.
ימח שמו וזכרו
He will go down in History as the 2nd Probably the 2nd worst President ever, and the second biggest anti Yiddish, I’ll let you guess who is # 1? He tried doing so much רשאת for Yiden. Fortunately ה׳ through his שליח Ronald Reagan saved us. His brother the מנול was best buddies, who stuffed him with cheap beer. I usually have sympathy when any creature is ill. But it looks like ה׳ is returning the favor to this שוני ישרא׳
Well, he lived to see the day that he was no longer the worst President in the history of the U.S. Who would have thought?
Anyone who listened to The Purim Story knows the explanation for the 2 pesukim! Mordechai kicks Haman when Haman has to lead him around, and Haman asks him, “Doesn’t it say ?בנפול איבך אל תשמח”
Mordechai replies, “Yes, but that is referring to a Jew. For a non-Jew, it says, וְאַתָּה עַל בָּמוֹתֵימוֹ תִדְרֹךְ”.