Former President Jimmy Carter held a press conference at the Carter Center in Atlanta to announce that his doctors found cancer in his brain.

He will immediately begin treatment for the brain cancer.

“I’m perfectly at ease with whatever comes,” Mr. Carter said. “I do have a deep religious faith, which I’m very grateful for. Now I feel this is in the hands of God.”

Carter said that initially they removed a cancerous tumor in the liver that forced removal of about a tenth of the liver.  He said that doctors determined the tumor was melanoma, and that it was likely it began somewhere else within Carter’s body.

Carter joked that he and his wife Rosalynn had been saying for years they would be slowing down their schedule and now seemed as good as time as any to do it.   He said that he would be curtailing his actions both with the Carter Center and around the world.

He expressed his desire to travel to Nepal in November to build homes with Habitat for Humanity.

He also said he will continue to teach his Sunday School class at his home church, Maranatha Baptist Church.

“I am ready for anything and looking forward to a new adventure,” Carter added. “I have had an exciting and venturous and gratifying existence.”