Former President Jimmy Carter has revealed his cancer has spread to his brain and that he has begun radiation treatment. In a press conference Thursday, Carter said he would like to live to continue his humanitarian work, but that he is “at ease with whatever comes.”

Former President Jimmy Carter: “Well, at first, I—I felt that it was confined to my liver and that the operation had completely removed it, so I had been quite relieved. And then, that same afternoon, we had an MRI of my head and neck, and it showed up that it was already in four places in my brain. So, I would say that night and the next day, until I came back up to Emory (hospital), I just thought I had a few weeks left. But I was surprisingly at ease. You know, I’ve had a wonderful life. I’ve had thousands of friends. And I’ve had an exciting and adventurous and gratifying existence. So I was surprisingly at ease, much more so than my wife was. But now I feel, you know, that it’s in the hands of God, whom I worship, and I’ll be prepared for anything that comes.”