--- title: Former President Jimmy Carter Doesn't Need Cancer Treatments description: Former President Jimmy Carter no longer needs cancer treatments. canonical: https://time.com/4248944/jimmy-carter-cancer-treatments/ author: Melissa Chan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-06T18:47:42.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-15T04:53:37.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: Former President Jimmy Carter No Longer Needs Cancer Treatments og:description: He's been cancer-free for about two months og:url: https://time.com/4248944/jimmy-carter-cancer-treatments/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4cd9ac923f75c28b/6988805dcd1bbacef06ffb6c/jimmy-carter-cancer-free.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: Former President Jimmy Carter Holds News Conference On His Cancer Diagnosis og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Former President Jimmy Carter No Longer Needs Cancer Treatments twitter:description: He's been cancer-free for about two months twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4cd9ac923f75c28b/6988805dcd1bbacef06ffb6c/jimmy-carter-cancer-free.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Former President Jimmy Carter No Longer Needs Cancer Treatments > Sponsored content. 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Former President Jimmy Carter discusses his cancer diagnosis during a press conference at the Carter Center on Aug. 20, 2015 in Atlanta, Georgia. Jessica McGowan—Getty Images  by [Melissa Chan](https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/)  ## Melissa Chan Updated: Dec 15, 2023 4:53 AM UTCPublished: Mar 6, 2016 6:47 PM UTC Former President Jimmy Carter [no longer needs cancer treatments](http://www.ajc.com/news/news/jimmy-carter-no-more-cancer-treatment-needed-now/nqfGt/). The 91-year-old made the announcement at a Sunday school class at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Ga. about two months after he told congregants that [he was cancer-free](http://time.com/4137812/jimmy-carter-cancer-free/), the Atlanta _Journal-Constitution_ reports. He had revealed last August that he would undergo treatment for [melanoma in his brain and liver](http://time.com/3995195/jimmy-carter-cancer/). The former president said Sunday that his doctors at Emory Winship Cancer Institute gave him the good news after an MRI last week, according to the _AJC_. “He said he will continue to get scans and MRI’s and if the time comes that they need to start (treatment) back up, they will,” church member Mandy Flynn told the newspaper. Carter had undergone treatments from August 2015 until February 2016, his spokeswoman Deanna Congileo told TIME in an email Sunday. \[[_AJC_](http://www.ajc.com/news/news/jimmy-carter-no-more-cancer-treatment-needed-now/nqfGt/)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4248944/jimmy-carter-cancer-treatments/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4248944/jimmy-carter-cancer-treatments/"},"headline":"Former President Jimmy Carter No Longer Needs Cancer Treatments","datePublished":"2016-03-06T18:47:42.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-15T04:53:37.000Z","description":"He's been cancer-free for about two months","url":"https://time.com/4248944/jimmy-carter-cancer-treatments/","keywords":["georgia","Jimmy Carter"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4cd9ac923f75c28b/6988805dcd1bbacef06ffb6c/jimmy-carter-cancer-free.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Chan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4cd9ac923f75c28b/6988805dcd1bbacef06ffb6c/jimmy-carter-cancer-free.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Former President Jimmy Carter Holds News Conference On His Cancer Diagnosis","caption":"Former President Jimmy Carter Holds News Conference On His Cancer Diagnosis","creditText":"Jessica McGowan—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/georgia/","name":"georgia"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4248944/jimmy-carter-cancer-treatments/","name":"Former President Jimmy Carter No Longer Needs Cancer Treatments"}}]}] ```