reports quite regularly with what we re doing with our peace programs and other health programs and so forth so i ll continue to do that. i can t really anticipate how i ll be feeling obviously, but i ll have to defer quite substantially to my doctors in charge of the treatment. i understand that the radiation treatments and also the injections will be every three weeks for four times and then stop and take a look at what s what the results might have been, and i ll try to adhere to that schedule as much as possible. the carter center is well prepared to continue on without any handicap if rosa and i do back away from a lot of the activities that we have been doing. we have decided last march that our grandson jason would take
turf. can trump s rivals contain his rising momentum? you know what s happening to jeb s crowd, as you know right down the street? they re sleeping. good day. i m luke russert in for andrea mitchell. we begin the developing news out of atlanta where former president jimmy carter has just spoken out publicly for the first time since announcing he has cancer. president carter has been dine nosed with melanoma that was first found on his liver and has spread to multiple spots of his brain. he will undergo his first of four radiation treatments this afternoon at emory university hospital in atlanta. joining me now is nbc s halle jackson at the press conference along with nbc s medical contributor dr. natalie azar who
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then he learned it had spread to his brain. we had an mri of my head and neck, and it showed up that it was already in four places in my brain. i just thought i had a few weeks left. but i was surprisingly at ease. reporter: carter smiled and joked with reporters in a 40-minute press conference. the 90-year-old described his life as blessed. i was a state senator, then governor, then president of the united states is obviously a glorious event. and we have a growing family. we have 22 grandchildren and great grandchildren. in his 34-year post president sirngs carter has been a globe trotting humanitarian. a trip to nepal to build houses for the poor may have to be canceled for radiation treatments which begin today. carter s during cited tremendous advances in melanoma treatment. it s really been sort of the progress of cancer research that there are therapies available to patients like president carter
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