美國前總統卡特癌症擴散至大腦

Former US president Jimmy Carter, 90, appears relaxed and smiling at a press conference in Atlanta yesterday to announce that cancer he revealed earlier this month had spread to his brain.

現年90歲的美國前總統吉米慍祓(Jimmy Carter)昨日在亞特蘭大舉行的一個新聞發佈會上宣佈，他本月早些時候透露的癌症病情已經擴散至大腦。他看起來自在放鬆，面帶笑容。

Despite initial hopes that liver surgery had removed the cancer, tests revealed four cancerous spots on his brain for which he would immediately begin radiation treatment, he told reporters.

卡特告訴記者，儘管最初希望肝臟手術能夠去除癌症，但檢查結果顯示他的大腦中有4個癌病竈，爲此他將立即開始接受放射性治療。

“I’ve had a wonderful life,” he said. “It’s in God’s hands. I’ll be prepared for anything that comes.” He added he was cutting back his work for the humanitarian Carter Center, for which he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. But he was set to teach Sunday school at his local church this weekend as usual.

“我已經過了美好的一生，”他稱，“現在一切在上帝掌握之中。我將爲接下來的無論什麼事情做好準備。”他補充稱，將減少在人道主義組織——卡特中心(Carter Center)的工作，他曾因爲這項工作而在2002年獲得諾貝爾和平獎(Nobel Peace Prize)。但是，本週末他將像往常一樣去當地教堂的主日學校授課。