An oncologist tells PEOPLE about the innovative cancer treatment that extended the former president’s life as he celebrates his 100th birthday ALEX BRANDON/POOL/AFP via Getty Jimmy Carter is ...

Nine years ago, Jimmy Carter held a news conference at the Carter Center in Atlanta to talk about his cancer diagnosis and treatment. Then age 91, Carter explained that a bad cold the previous May ...

Former President Jimmy Carter was known globally for his diplomacy and humanitarian work. The world of medicine will remember him not only as a person who beat the cancer that spread in his body ...

Jimmy Carter spent nearly two years in hospice care ... in the last two weeks of life as a measure of receiving quality cancer care. "Deciding to stop anti-cancer treatments is difficult and ...

Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States ... in early August 2015 and later that month announced he had liver cancer that had spread throughout his body. The Carter family had a ...

Jimmy Carter in London, in the U.K., on February 3, 2016. Carter died on Sunday, but his cause of death has not been officially confirmed. Neil Hall/ASSOCIATED PRESS If cancer were determined as ...

Former President Jimmy Carter far surpassed this average after ... the last two weeks of life as a measure of receiving ...