Carter reveals that cancer has spread to brain
By John Amis/Reuters

Former US president Jimmy Carter, 90, appears relaxed and smiling at a press conference in Atlanta yesterday to announce that cancer he revealed earlier this month had spread to his brain.
Despite initial hopes that liver surgery had removed the cancer, tests revealed four cancerous spots on his brain for which he would immediately begin radiation treatment, he told reporters.
“I’ve had a wonderful life,” he said. “It’s in God’s hands. I’ll be prepared for anything that comes.” He added he was cutting back his work for the humanitarian Carter Center, for which he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. But he was set to teach Sunday school at his local church this weekend as usual.