carter cancer diagnosis

[Danzig]

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slate...statement.html

hate to hear this.
he may have not been the best president, but in the years since, he's shown himself to be a good, caring man who has done a lot of humanitarian work.
I recently saw him on 'star talk' with NDT, where he talked about his groups work against the guinea worm.
hoping for the best for him.

[GenuineRisk]

He was probably the most honest man to hold the office in the 20th century, and for better or worse, Americans prefer a President who will lie to them a bit.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/spc/char...ys/carter.html

[geeker2]

90 years old - no one gets out alive......

[somerfrost]

He has shown that all politicians aren't self-serving clowns, he will go down in history as a good man...high praise for any one.

[Danzig]

starts radiation today. they found four spots on his brain. best of luck to him

[Danzig]

http://www.cartercenter.org/health/g...se-totals.html

Jimmy Carter: "I’d Like to See the Last Guinea Worm Die Before I Do.'"


Carter said his center had chosen to focus on the disease because “it was in such remote villages that no one wanted to take on the task. So we decided to take it on.” In part because of these efforts, a disease that was once endemic in 31 countries in Asia and Africa is likely to be the second human disease after smallpox to be completely eliminated.


There have been some setbacks along the way. In 2013, the Carter Center warned that Guinea worm was at risk of making a comeback due to the conflict in Northern Mali. Like polio, also on the verge of eradication, political violence has been the main factor preventing Guinea worm’s eradication. But since then, cases have dropped from over 500 to just a handful.