Alex Trebek stage 4 pancreatic cancer

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This news is awful. People who say "I hope he beats it" blessedly have no experience with pancreatic cancer. You not only don't have a chance of beating it if you get it, you will be dead within months of your diagnosis. A very dear friend of mine lost her mom AND sister to this. It's one of the most brutal illnesses I have ever seen happen to a family. Neither made it 5 months past diagnosis.

Alex Trebek is an institution. He is a huge part of what mostof is consider the experience of growing up in America ... a game show that has always been on, always been the same. It's a touchstone for us and he is a huge part of that. He will be very very missed.

Pancreatic cancer kills quickly.

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Anonymous wrote:Pancreatic cancer is seriously terrifying. One day you're fine, and then three months later you're dead.

It is absolutely terrifying. I wish they would come up with better markers/early detection, and of course treatment.

How about death from accidental injury? 165k Americans die that way every year. They don’t get 3 or 6 months. Or maybe not even hours.

THAT isn’t terrifying?


Risk factors for this disease include smoking, obesity, genetics, and diet. Chemical exposure, and above all....age.

By the way without knowing the exact terms of his disease, one cannot know how he will fare. If he has neuroendocrine cancer he may have several years of a rather indolent course. If he has favorable genetic data he may do better on therapies targeted to that. I wish him well!!

Hello Sally Sunshine......

Take your sunshine where you can get it.

[Anonymous]

Ok my new biggest fear in life after reading this thread is getting this cancer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ok my new biggest fear in life after reading this thread is getting this cancer.

I know - we should all stop. It’s awful.

Still - there are 328, 542, 022 people in the United States and each year 50,000 people get this so your odds of getting it are:

0.00014345 %

So, don’t worry.

[Anonymous]

So the jeopardy that is playing now on tv, when was it filmed? Do the contestants know?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This news is awful. People who say "I hope he beats it" blessedly have no experience with pancreatic cancer. You not only don't have a chance of beating it if you get it, you will be dead within months of your diagnosis. A very dear friend of mine lost her mom AND sister to this. It's one of the most brutal illnesses I have ever seen happen to a family. Neither made it 5 months past diagnosis.

Alex Trebek is an institution. He is a huge part of what mostof is consider the experience of growing up in America ... a game show that has always been on, always been the same. It's a touchstone for us and he is a huge part of that. He will be very very missed.

Pancreatic cancer kills quickly.

While I know what you say is true I also know that a friend's mom got pancreatic cancer and lived for about three or four years after her diagnosis.

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Anonymous wrote:This news is awful. People who say "I hope he beats it" blessedly have no experience with pancreatic cancer. You not only don't have a chance of beating it if you get it, you will be dead within months of your diagnosis. A very dear friend of mine lost her mom AND sister to this. It's one of the most brutal illnesses I have ever seen happen to a family. Neither made it 5 months past diagnosis.

Alex Trebek is an institution. He is a huge part of what mostof is consider the experience of growing up in America ... a game show that has always been on, always been the same. It's a touchstone for us and he is a huge part of that. He will be very very missed.

Pancreatic cancer kills quickly.

While I know what you say is true I also know that a friend's mom got pancreatic cancer and lived for about three or four years after her diagnosis.

That would be good.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This news is awful. People who say "I hope he beats it" blessedly have no experience with pancreatic cancer. You not only don't have a chance of beating it if you get it, you will be dead within months of your diagnosis. A very dear friend of mine lost her mom AND sister to this. It's one of the most brutal illnesses I have ever seen happen to a family. Neither made it 5 months past diagnosis.

Alex Trebek is an institution. He is a huge part of what mostof is consider the experience of growing up in America ... a game show that has always been on, always been the same. It's a touchstone for us and he is a huge part of that. He will be very very missed.

Pancreatic cancer kills quickly.

While I know what you say is true I also know that a friend's mom got pancreatic cancer and lived for about three or four years after her diagnosis.

But that is, truly, the absolute rarest of pancreatic cancer outcomes and FAR outside the norm. It's not being pessimistic, it's just being real about what this disease does. It is the most terrifying of cancers to get because it's darn near untreatable by the time it is detected, which for most people is very late since it is either asymptomatic or the symptoms present as other things like GI issues or muscle strains.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So the jeopardy that is playing now on tv, when was it filmed? Do the contestants know?

I think about six months ago? I don’t remember exactly, but a while back there was a contestant who was dying from cancer. They didn’t mention it until AFTER she won and played, and she had died by the time it aired.

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We watched the filming when it was in DC and Trebek was so kind and nice.

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Anonymous wrote:I know it’s so hard to diagnose. I always felt like an annual full body MRI or CT scan makes sense to try and find things early.

Yeah, where is the harm in that?

I believe research has shown that these types of scans have a tendency to pick up abnormalities that are not actually harmful, but may result in unnecessary treatment and certainly anxiety. Giving prescriptions or operating on people who don't actually need it can be just as dangerous as missing a diagnosis, because no surgery or pill is 100% safe. There's always a cost to everything.

And a single limited area CT is hundreds of x-rays of radiation at once. They increase lifetime incidence of cancer. And yes, the "incidental-omas" (an actual word) noted above come with increasing risk, also.

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Anonymous wrote:This news is awful. People who say "I hope he beats it" blessedly have no experience with pancreatic cancer. You not only don't have a chance of beating it if you get it, you will be dead within months of your diagnosis. A very dear friend of mine lost her mom AND sister to this. It's one of the most brutal illnesses I have ever seen happen to a family. Neither made it 5 months past diagnosis.

Alex Trebek is an institution. He is a huge part of what mostof is consider the experience of growing up in America ... a game show that has always been on, always been the same. It's a touchstone for us and he is a huge part of that. He will be very very missed.

Pancreatic cancer kills quickly.

While I know what you say is true I also know that a friend's mom got pancreatic cancer and lived for about three or four years after her diagnosis.

But that is, truly, the absolute rarest of pancreatic cancer outcomes and FAR outside the norm. It's not being pessimistic, it's just being real about what this disease does. It is the most terrifying of cancers to get because it's darn near untreatable by the time it is detected, which for most people is very late since it is either asymptomatic or the symptoms present as other things like GI issues or muscle strains.

My friends mother had the most common kind and lived 2 years after diagnosis. She had the whipple though and of course treatment.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This news is awful. People who say "I hope he beats it" blessedly have no experience with pancreatic cancer. You not only don't have a chance of beating it if you get it, you will be dead within months of your diagnosis. A very dear friend of mine lost her mom AND sister to this. It's one of the most brutal illnesses I have ever seen happen to a family. Neither made it 5 months past diagnosis.

Alex Trebek is an institution. He is a huge part of what mostof is consider the experience of growing up in America ... a game show that has always been on, always been the same. It's a touchstone for us and he is a huge part of that. He will be very very missed.

Pancreatic cancer kills quickly.

While I know what you say is true I also know that a friend's mom got pancreatic cancer and lived for about three or four years after her diagnosis.

But that is, truly, the absolute rarest of pancreatic cancer outcomes and FAR outside the norm. It's not being pessimistic, it's just being real about what this disease does. It is the most terrifying of cancers to get because it's darn near untreatable by the time it is detected, which for most people is very late since it is either asymptomatic or the symptoms present as other things like GI issues or muscle strains.

You know what? You are almost certainly right. The odds are definitely not in his favor, the prognosis is very poor. But, I will respect his desire to fight this disease and I do hope that he is one of the very lucky few people who do live longer than predicted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So the jeopardy that is playing now on tv, when was it filmed? Do the contestants know?

When I was on we taped in February and it aired in June.

[Anonymous]

Lost my aunt to it. Knowing it's a death sentence is incredibly terrifying.