thousands of friends, so i don t think living until i will be 91 years old the 1st of october so everything has been a blessing for me so i m thankful and hopeful. president carter, voice of america. i wanted to ask, what has been you said you have sort of taking a pragmatic approach to the treatment and the news, but what has been the most difficult part about the news for you in the past couple weeks? well, i haven t had any difficult treatment aspect yet. the liver surgery was fairly extensive. they removed one-tenth of my liver i understand but it healed up quickly and i had minimal pain. and the first treatment i had yesterday will be followed this afternoon by the radiation, and that will be every three weeks four times and then they will reassess. so i haven t had any unpleasantness yet. is it difficult to step away
his liver surgery proved not to be the cure that he was hoping for. first, i felt that it was confined to my liver and they had the operation had completely removed it, so i was quite relieved. and then that same afternoon we had an mri of my head and neck and it showed up that it was already in four places in my brain. i would say that night and the next day until i came back up to emory, i just thought i had a few weeks left. but i was surprisingly at ease. i ve had a wonderful life. i ve had thousands of friends and i ve had an exciting, adventurous, gratifying existence. i was surprisingly much more at ease than my wife. that wife he s talking about, mrs. carter, the former
the carter center, thousands of friends so i don t think, 81 years old in october. i am thankful and hopeful. i wanted to ask what has been, you said you have taken a pragmatic approach to the treatment but what is the most difficult part about the news for you? i had a difficult treatment aspect, liver surgery was that extensive, it healed up quickly and minimal pain and the first treatment i had yesterday would be followed this afternoon by radiation and that will be every three weeks four times.
is your dad and had a kid in the united states, you re a citizen of the united states if you were born here? born here, period. yep. thank you. we re also following gements on former president jimmy carter. in less than an hour, we ll make his first public comments ability his battle with cancer. we ll bring you that news conference live expected to begin in about 15 minutes. last week, he revealed a diagnosis he said was discovered after recent liver surgery. sarah dallof joins us from the carter center in atlanta. what are we expecting? good morning. we re expecting the former president to touch on two of the biggest questions out there. first, what type of cancer is it? second, what is the prognosis? of course, there is a history of pancreatic cancer in his family. his father, two sisters, and a brother all died from the illness. since the initial announcement, the former president has been keeping a busy schedule. he attended church services in his hometown here in georgia
developing now, a live look at the carter center in atlanta where in just moments, we ll hear from former president jimmy carter who s holding a news conference to talk about his recent cancer diagnosis. last week, the 90-year-old carter revealed cancer was discovered after recent liver surgery. we expect to hear a lot more about his health and have those remarks for you live right here on the rundown after this short break. (dorothy) toto, i ve a feeling we re not in kansas anymore. (morpheus) after this, there is no turning back. (spock) history is replete with turning points. (kevin) wow, this is great. (commentator) where fantasy becomes reality!