--- title: Jimmy Carter Is Responding Well to Cancer Treatment description: He is responding well to treatment for skin cancer canonical: https://time.com/4107460/jimmy-carter-cancer-treatment/ author: Eliana Dockterman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-11-10T22:52:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T12:30:00.651Z article:section: Politics og:title: Jimmy Carter Is Responding Well to Cancer Treatment og:description: He announced his skin cancer diagnosis in August og:url: https://time.com/4107460/jimmy-carter-cancer-treatment/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt54fb20e361cee53b/698870690b72e386016e6c07/gettyimages-486061674.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2600 og:image:height: 1463 og:image:alt: Americans Make a Sort of Pilgrimage to Plains, Georgia to See Jimmy Carter og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jimmy Carter Is Responding Well to Cancer Treatment twitter:description: He announced his skin cancer diagnosis in August twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt54fb20e361cee53b/698870690b72e386016e6c07/gettyimages-486061674.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jimmy Carter Is Responding Well to Cancer Treatment > Sponsored content. 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The Washington Post—The Washington Post/Getty Images  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Nov 10, 2015 10:52 PM UTC Former President Jimmy Carter is responding well to the treatment for his cancer, the Carter Center [said on Tuesday in a statement](http://www.cartercenter.org/news/pr/carter-center-statement-111015.html). Carter, 91, [announced in August](http://time.com/3995195/jimmy-carter-cancer/) that he had been diagnosed with melanoma, a kind of skin cancer. The cancer had made its way to his brain and liver. He began treatment at Emory University’s Kinship Cancer Institute in Atlanta. Doctors told Carter that the spots of melanoma on his brain are treatable. “They tell him that recent tests have shown there is no evidence of new malignancy, and his original problem is responding well to treatment,” the statement read. “Further tests will continue.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4107460/jimmy-carter-cancer-treatment/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4107460/jimmy-carter-cancer-treatment/"},"headline":"Jimmy Carter Is Responding Well to Cancer Treatment","datePublished":"2015-11-10T22:52:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T12:30:00.651Z","description":"He announced his skin cancer diagnosis in August","url":"https://time.com/4107460/jimmy-carter-cancer-treatment/","keywords":["Cancer","White House","Presidents","Jimmy Carter"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt54fb20e361cee53b/698870690b72e386016e6c07/gettyimages-486061674.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliana Dockterman","jobTitle":"Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt54fb20e361cee53b/698870690b72e386016e6c07/gettyimages-486061674.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Americans Make a Sort of Pilgrimage to Plains, Georgia to See Jimmy Carter","caption":"Americans Make a Sort of Pilgrimage to Plains, Georgia to See Jimmy Carter","creditText":"The Washington Post—The Washington Post/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/cancer/","name":"Cancer"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4107460/jimmy-carter-cancer-treatment/","name":"Jimmy Carter Is Responding Well to Cancer Treatment"}}]}] ```