Former US President
Jimmy Carter says recent liver surgery revealed that he has cancer and it has
spread to other parts of his body. The 90-year-old statesman underwent
surgery to remove a small mass in his liver earlier this month. He
said he would reveal more "when facts are known, possibly next week".
Mr
Carter will undergo treatment by physicians at Emory Healthcare in Atlanta.
President
Barack Obama wished Mr Carter "a full and fast recovery" in a
statement released on Wednesday.
BBC
report continues:
"Jimmy,
you're as resilient as they come, and along with the rest of America, we are
rooting for you," Mr Obama said.
The
White House said Mr Obama spoke to Mr Carter on the telephone on Wednesday.
Bernice
King, daughter of Martin Luther King Jr, posted on Twitter: "President
#JimmyCarter is in my thoughts & prayers. May the Lord heal, comfort &
encourage this extraordinary servant-leader to the world."
Leaving
the White House in 1981, Mr Carter has remained active carrying out
humanitarian efforts with his Carter Center in recent years. He founded the
centre, which focuses on human-rights efforts and political mediation, soon
after he left office. He was later responsible for negotiating a 1994 nuclear
disarmament pact with North Korea and has visited Syrian President Bashar
al-Assad in recent years. A Democrat from Georgia, Mr Carter was elected
president in 1976.
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Mr
Carter monitors an election in Panama in 1994
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He
won the Nobel Peace prize in 2002 for his commitment to finding peaceful
solutions to international conflicts, his work with human rights and democracy
initiatives and his promotion of economic and social programmes.
The
BBC interviewed Mr Carter in February about his efforts to eradicate guinea
worm disease and in the South Sudan and Mali and river blindness in both Africa
and Latin America.
He
said then he was happy to still be travelling and doing work across the globe.
But
in May, he returned early from a trip to observe elections in Ghana because he
was "not feeling well".
Mr
Carter has been recently promoting his latest book, A Full Life: Reflections at
Ninety, which was released in July.
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