Jeopardy! host reaches out directly to fans to confirm his cancer diagnosis
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Summary
The 78-year-old has been diagnosed with stage-four pancreatic cancer."I have some news to share with you, and it's keeping with my longtime policy of being open and transparent with our Jeopardy! Therefore, I wanted to be the one to pass along this information."Further ReadingFiguring out why drugs don’t work on pancreatic cancerHis statement, unsurprisingly, sets medical context for his news, including his statement that his diagnosis is "just like 50,000 other people in the United States each year." He also expresses his desire and confidence to take the cancer diagnosis head-on, telling viewers that he "plans to beat the low survival rate statistics for this disease."After taking a beat to pause, Trebek added, "Truth be told, I have to.
As said here by Sam Machkovech