Jimmy Carter’s ‘Cancer Cure’
In August 2015, Jimmy Carter announced that he had a form of cancer that spread to his liver and brain. A few months later he reported the cancer was gone. How?
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Sources:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/08/20/the-breakthrough-melanoma-drug-doctors-have-given-jimmy-carter/
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/dec/06/immunotherapy-drug-jimmy-carters-cancer-cure
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http://www.cancer.gov/types/skin/research/advanced-melanoma-therapies
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What It Means That Jimmy Carter Is ‘Cancer-Free’
https://www.keytruda.com/melanoma/how-keytruda-works/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24955707
http://intimm.oxfordjournals.org/content/19/7/813.full.pdf
