Carter cancer treatment depends on many factors
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DETERMINING what treatment to pursue for former US president Jimmy Carter's cancer will depend on several factors, but the first tasks are to determine where it started and whether it is curable, doctors said.
Carter, 90, said on Wednesday that recent liver surgery found cancer that has spread to other parts of his body. A statement released by the Carter Center indicates that the Nobel peace laureate’s cancer is widespread but not where it originated. The liver is often a place where cancer spreads and less commonly is its primary source.
Dr Len Lichtenfeld, deputy chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society, said determining where the cancer originated can help select the treatment. Sometimes the primary site can’t be determined, so genetic analysis of the tumor is done to see what mutations are driving it and what drugs might target those mutations.
Much in successful cancer treatment depends on the patient’s “biological” age versus his actual years, said Dr Lodovico Balducci, a cancer specialist at the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida.
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