The former US President Jimmy Carter says cancer has spread to his brain, and he's beginning immediate radiation treatments in a bid to overcome it.
But he told reporters that he expects the disease could spread further, and called himself "perfectly at ease with whatever comes".
Our Washington Correspondent Simon Marks reports.
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