Former President Jimmy Carter partook in a press conference Thursday morning, to announce that he would be going into radiation. The 90-year-old revealed that on August 3, he underwent surgery to remove a small mass from his liver, which he had learned was melanoma, a skin cancer, that spread to his brain.

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Carter announced that doctors had found four little melanoma dots on his brain. “I just thought I had a few weeks left. But I was surprisingly at ease. I’ve had a wonderful life, I’ve had thousands of friends, and I’ve had an exciting and adventurous and gratifying existence,” Carter said of his feelings after the melanoma diagnosis was revealed. “So I was surprisingly at ease. Much more so than my wife was. But now I feel that you know that it’s in the hands of God and my worship, and I’ll be prepared for anything that comes.”

Carter says that today, Thursday, August 20, will be his first day of radiation treatment. He plans to have the radiation done in Atlanta.

His family has a history of pancreatic cancer. His father, both his sisters and his brother died of pancreatic cancer, and his mother had pancreatic cancer as well.

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SOURCE: NBC News