Longtime 'Jeopardy!' host Alex Trebek is celebrating a milestone in his health battle with a blunt but determined new announcement.
Longtime"Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek is celebrating a milestone in his health battle with a blunt but determined new announcement., shared Wednesday on the official"Jeopardy!" social media accounts. "I'm very happy to report I have just reached that marker."diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer
"I'd be lying if I said the journey had been an easy one," he added."There were some good days, but a lot of not-so-good days. I joked with friends that the cancer won't kill me, the chemo treatments will. There were moments of great pain, days when certain bodily functions no longer functioned and sudden, massive attacks of great depression that made me wonder if it really was worth fighting on.
"That would have been a massive betrayal – a betrayal of my wife and soulmate, Jean, who has given her all to help me survive," Trebek said of the idea of giving up hope. "It would have been a betrayal of other cancer patients who have looked to me as an inspiration and a cheerleader of sorts of the value of living and hope. And it would certainly have been a betrayal of my faith in God and the millions of prayers that have been said on my behalf.
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