Posted on 03/07/2019 6:59:37 PM PST by robowombat
'Jeopardy!' host Alex Trebek reveals stage IV pancreatic cancer diagnosis
Alex Trebek made a heartbreaking announcement Wednesday when the longtime “Jeopardy!” host announced that he has been diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer. Alex Trebek made a heartbreaking announcement Wednesday when the longtime “Jeopardy!” host announced that he has been diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer. “I have some news to share with all of you and it’s in keeping with my longtime policy of being open and transparent with our Jeopardy! fan base,” Trebek, 78, said in a video message recorded on the iconic set.
“I also wanted to prevent you from reading or hearing some overblown or inaccurate reports regarding my health. So therefore, I wanted to be the one to pass along this information.” The Canadian game show host, who has led almost 8,000 episodes of “Jeopardy,” said his prognosis is “normally...not very encouraging” but insisted that he’s “going to fight this.”
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I think since 1984.
5-year survival rate for Stage 4 pancreatic cancer is about 3%. Most are lucky to live for another year; sometimes it’s just a few months, or even weeks if it is far enough along.
Pretty much everything you need to know can be found at MD Anderson in Houston;
https://www.mdanderson.org/cancer-types/pancreatic-cancer.html
The post police are disgusting.
I did back in 2010, but quit 1/9/11. PC didn’t strike until 2016, so the dr’s can’t correlate it as a cause. I quit and haven’t restarted, since Jan 9, 2011. I do smoke half to one pack of Marlboros, per day.
“What was your experience while dead. Care to share it. i read a book on the subject by an MD. He now believes there is a heaven”
I died on 12/26 last year in the ambulance during a heart attack. All my pain and stress immediately disappeared. It was the most peaceful feeling I have ever had. I was in a black void which may have been an infinite tunnel. There were....people, angels, I don’t know but they were floating in the void. I could not make out enough detail to determine if I knew them. I would point out that I am a male, I don’t have feelings and I am in no way spiritual or overly religious, but that is what i experienced. Then I came back.
Very sad
Wow that’s just like me, smoke a pack a day and still drink. Wow that’s terrible though, you lost 131 lbs? My God! And you died twice? That’s horrific. Yeah I’m giving that stuff up, I’ve had it.. I went a day without smoking last week and it wasn’t as bad as a thought, like an itch you can’t scratch. My brother quit and said it was easy as hell by using exercise, every time he had an urge to smoke he got on the treadmill. I gotta stop though, I’m 56 and my lungs wheeze at night. I’ll end on oxygen or worse if I keep going. I’m not like Keith Richards, I’m not an android.
Get some 21-14 Nico-Derm patches at your drug store. They’ll help you quit. I went from 4-5 packs a day to 1/2 pack in less than 2 weeks.
I was 265lbs when I was rushed to York Hospital on 3/23/17, after collapsing in the dr’s office, to 134. I’m 5’10”. I was on IV feed and water, only ice chips to suck on for 23 days, plus huge amounts of antibiotics for 23 days in YH, and when I came out, I looked like a cadaver.
I transferred to PSU-Hershey Med Ctr, where they do the specialized ERCP Endoscopy ops that I required. Just had my 15th yesterday; a breeze when they use profocol “twilight anesthesia”.
I’m doing great, back up to 165lbs, trying to get to 170-75lbs, my usual weight.
Quit the alcohol, reduce the smokes, and get your weight down, if you’re overweight; I was getting grossly obese at 265, compared to 175.
I drink lots of fruit juice all day, eat 1-2 meals a day; nothing after 4pm.
If you want a list of fruit juices, just ask.
Get after it, starting today.
You don’t ever want to go thru what I went thru, for 2yrs.
“I’m not like Keith Richards, I’m not an android.”
That pic of him is amazing. I can’t believe he hasn’t had medical problems. Hell of an immune system.
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