Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek has cancer

[MoodyBlues]

My phone just went crazy with alerts from the local stations that Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek has stage 4 pancreatic cancer.

Trebek has stated that he is going to fight this--but its odds are bleak. Generally speaking...well, let's just say that most people, once diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer, don't have much time left.

I appreciate his humor, saying that he has to live because his Jeopardy! contract holds him to hosting for three more years.

Sending healing thoughts his way...

 

[lunatic59]

That's what got Steve Jobs, too.

I've personally known two people who had pancreatic cancer and was a quick end.

 

[MoodyBlues]

That's what got Steve Jobs, too.

I've personally known two people who had pancreatic cancer and was a quick end.

I've known one...from diagnosis to death was ≈3 months.

 

[Milo Willamson]

Alec, "How do you cure cancer?"

"I am sorry contensent, there is no right answer."

 

[MoodyBlues]

He's always had a terrific sense of humor (in case you missed a recent example in Funny Pictures).

Thanks! I hadn't seen it. Betty White...what can I say?!

Stage 4 of any kind of cancer doesn't yield a good prognosis.

Yeah, it's usually bleak, and pancreatic is like the worst of the worst. However, there's always hope...

My aunt's sister, who's in her 70s, was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer; it had metastasized throughout her body. Her prognosis was terrible, a few months at most. But she chose aggressive treatment, including surgery and chemotherapy, which made her sick and weak. But she soldiered on--and is still hanging in there some four years later. So you never know.

I have always liked him and wish him the very best.

Same here. I had stopped watching Jeopardy! for awhile after my mom died in 2013, because it made me sad. (We usually watched it together in her room.) I resumed watching in 2016. I've seen some amazing players, including Cindy Stowell, who was dying of colon cancer when she appeared, and the hilarious Austin Rogers.

I want Alex to beat this...damn it...

 

[Milo Willamson]

Thanks! I hadn't seen it. Betty White...what can I say?!

Yeah, it's usually bleak, and pancreatic is like the worst of the worst. However, there's always hope...

My aunt's sister, who's in her 70s, was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer; it had metastasized throughout her body. Her prognosis was terrible, a few months at most. But she chose aggressive treatment, including surgery and chemotherapy, which made her sick and weak. But she soldiered on--and is still hanging in there some four years later. So you never know.

Same here. I had stopped watching Jeopardy! for awhile after my mom died in 2013, because it made me sad. (We usually watched it together in her room.) I resumed watching in 2016. I've seen some amazing players, including Cindy Stowell, who was dying of colon cancer when she appeared, and the hilarious Austin Rogers.

I want Alex to beat this...damn it...

Stopped watching the show when my grandmother got ill, due to her swallowing of her hearing aids. I used to be a gameshow junkie back in the day. Maybe that is why the intellgent got attatched to this old brain of mine.

 

[MoodyBlues]

That's what got Steve Jobs, too.

And, as I was reminded on ABC's news tonight, Patrick Swayze, Michael Landon, and Aretha Franklin.