Prayers and hope for Mr. Jennings and his next of kin. 
If you smoke, quit. If you don't, don't start.
Prayers and hope for Mr. Jennings and his next of kin.
It wasn't often that I agreed with Jennigs as to his world view, but he in my mind was a great broadcast journalist insofar as his style and delivery was concerned.
A shame, really. We're all so much more fragile than we want to accept. Really, just another Canuck trying to make it big in The States. And he did.
Prayers up.
I hate to compare Peter Jennings with Edward R. Murrow but ....
He told me a lot of news, over the years! He reminds me of the days before 24-hour-a-day news... when there actually was a news hour. And Breaking News actually broke into other programs... not just other news.
Very upsetting. If true, I hope the good Lord has been able to fill him with peace. Jennings is an intelligant man and to come to grips with this, must have been difficult. My prayers have been with him since the first announcement and will continue for him and his family.
Aye. Just Damn.
I agree.
If indeed this is the Mr Jennings time, may he go in peace and may his family find comfort.
May his passing be peaceful, and may God comfort his family.
Prayers for him and his family. May God take him home quickly.
Prayers for Peter Jennings and his family. May he die peacefully and be at terms with the Lord.
My prayers and thoughts go out to the Jennings Family.
God grant him peace and an easy death. I will pray for him and for his family.
May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over and our work is done! Then in His Mercy may He give us a safe lodging and a holy rest and peace at the last.
Complete Thy work, O Lord, and as Thou hast loved me from the beginning so make me to love Thee unto the end.
- Cardinal Newman
Prayers joined here.
When did he retire?
SAD
FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/06/business/media/06jennings.html?position=&adxnnl=1&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1112793663-dUD8FXsSx+tVgkQjaGcs2w
Mr. Jennings had been a heavy smoker until the mid- to late-1980's, colleagues said. He quit at that time, though the colleagues said it was an enormous struggle for him and periodically he was known to sneak a cigarette or two. At one point, Mr. Jennings and his executive producer then, Paul Friedman, visited a hypnotist in Boston seeking to break their addictions to cigarettes.
That treatment worked for a time, but as Mr. Jennings acknowledged in his commentary last night, he returned to regular smoking after the terrorist attacks in 2001. He later quit again, a colleague said.
FROM THE WASHINGTON POST:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27732-2005Apr5.html?sub=AR
ABC executives refused to provide medical details of the type or state of Jennings's cancer. Nine in 10 lung cancer cases are related to smoking, and a diminishing risk continues even after someone quits.
Norman Edelman, chief medical officer of the American Lung Association, said a decision by patients not to seek surgery for lung cancer "suggests they believe it's already spread to a point where surgery does not offer a cure." This is either because the cancer is at too advanced a stage or because it is a form called small-cell cancer -- which occurs in about a quarter of such cases -- and has already spread to other parts of the body, he said. Still, "chemotherapy can absolutely prolong life," said Edelman, who teaches at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Michael Thun, vice president of epidemiology for the American Cancer Society, said that "the most effective treatment for localized lung cancer is surgical removal. If it's already spread, then surgery is not an option." Although the five-year survival rate for men with operable lung cancer is 45 percent, he said, it is under 14 percent for more advanced cancer that cannot be removed.
FROM THE NEW YORK POST
http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/44008.htm
Peter Jennings will immediately receive chemotherapy for his battle with lung cancer which could indicate the possibility that the ABC anchor has an aggressive type of cancer or one that has already spread.
There are two types of lung cancer: small cell and non-small cell and they are treated differently, said Dr. Avi Barbasch, who sits on the board of directors of the American Cancer Society's Eastern Division. "If it's localized and small-cell type, the primary treatment is chemotherapy and it potentially can cure it," Barbasch said.
"If it's small cell and has spread, it has a high response rate [to chemo] but a high chance of coming back." If Jennings does have a non-small-cell carcinoma "and it is inoperable, then the treatment of choice could be chemotherapy," said Barbasch. The non-small type is best treated with surgery if it has not spread.
The 66-year-old former smoker will face grueling chemotherapy treatments that could last for months. After that, his prognosis is unclear. "We don't know what kind of cell type it is and if it has spread, within or beyond the chest," Barbasch said. "Those things play a factor in his symptoms, how he feels and his prognosis."
Dr. David Carbone, an oncologist specializing in lung cancer and professor at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, said that "there's a huge range in possible outcomes for lung cancer." If you have a tiny nodule that gets surgically removed, then you have a 90 percent cure rate," he said. "If you have widely metastatic disease, then you have a zero."