Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek: "I Have Cancer"

[stevearino]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cInGyxCY9k

As many of you are aware, in a YouTube video posted above, "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek, age 78, revealed a grim diagnosis this week of Stage 4 Pancreatic Cancer, acknowledging in the video that the survival rate is low.

Despite the diagnosis, Alex (who in his 78 years has ALREADY survived 2 heart attacks in 2007 and 2012, respectively) is determined to beat the disease--and if ANYONE can beat the Cancer, it's Alex Trebek, so PLEASE keep Alex in your Prayers as he undergoes Chemotherapy and other Cancer treatments.

[Babalu]

I wish him the best but this is not promising.

I watch Jeopardy every day - and before the current contestant search rules tried to get on the show - and I am not looking forward to watching him go downhill before our eyes.

[OH Nuts!]

Originally Posted by Babalu

I wish him the best but this is not promising.

I watch Jeopardy every day - and before the current contestant search rules tried to get on the show - and I am not looking forward to watching him go downhill before our eyes.

Sadly, it’s one of the hardest cancers to beat. Like lung cancer, it gives no, or very ambiguous symptoms until Stage 4.

[JL82]

Originally Posted by stevearino

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cInGyxCY9k

As many of you are aware, in a YouTube video posted above, "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek, age 78, revealed a grim diagnosis this week of Stage 4 Pancreatic Cancer, acknowledging in the video that the survival rate is low.

Despite the diagnosis, Alex (who in his 78 years has ALREADY survived 2 heart attacks in 2007 and 2012, respectively) is determined to beat the disease--and if ANYONE can beat the Cancer, it's Alex Trebek, so PLEASE keep Alex in your Prayers as he undergoes Chemotherapy and other Cancer treatments.

There are two videos he made - one where he makes this announcement and another where he thanks fans for the "literally hundreds of thousands of tweets, messages, emails, etc" wishing him well.

Two things kind of amazed me. In the thank-you video he called himself "a lucky guy." In the original one, he said he was making the announcement, in this way because he wanted to be the one to pass along the information (not the media), because he didn't want us Jeopardy fans hearing an "inaccurate or overblown" report. Given what the news actually was, it's kind of amazing that he was worried about it being "overblown."

[Schmoopie]

He is amazingly and wonderfully upbeat. I hope he makes a full recovery.