Alex Trebek shares positive, ‘mind-boggling’ cancer update - Global News

In what can only be described as outstanding news, Alex Trebek revealed Wednesday that his health has taken a very positive turn.Story continues belowIn early March, the longtime Jeopardy! host disclosed that he’d been diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer, an illness with a grim prognosis and an approximately nine per cent survival rate.READ MORE: Alex Trebek ‘feeling good,’ promises to return as host of ‘Jeopardy!’ next seasonNow, just over two months later, the 78-year-old Trebek’s outlook isn’t so dark: according to his doctors, he’s in “near remission,” and has been responding very well to chemotherapy.“It’s kind of mind-boggling,” said Trebek. “The doctors said they hadn’t seen this kind of positive result in their memory… some of the tumours have already shrunk by more than 50 per cent.”The jovial host says that while he’s overjoyed at his progress — he shed “tears of joy” when he found out the good news — he’s not getting ahead of himself. He still has multiple rounds of chemotherapy to endure.In early May, during his first televised interview following his diagnosis, he explained that he’s been feeling a lot of different emotions that he’s not used to experiencing.WATCH BELOW: Alex Trebek speaks with Good Morning America’s Robin Roberts during his first post-diagnosis interview

from Entertainment - Latest - Google News http://bit.ly/2WvIclB
via IFTTT
May 29, 2019 at 08:50PM