Alex Trebek stage 4 pancreatic cancer

[Anonymous]

Patrick Swayze was diagnosed in Jan 2008 and died in Sept 2009. If Alex Trebek makes it 2 more years, we will all be very, very lucky.

[Anonymous]

16% live to one year after diagnosis, 5% make it to 2 years, 1% make it to 5 years. There are always outliers who defy the odds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Coincidentally, a Facebook friend was on it last Friday and he said they filmed it a few weeks before.

[Anonymous]

How is he doing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How is he doing?

He did a small end-of-season, thank-you-for-caring speech on camera and I thought he liked good. You can probably find it on YouTube if you google for it.

[Anonymous]

^ “liked” = “looked”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:16% live to one year after diagnosis, 5% make it to 2 years, 1% make it to 5 years. There are always outliers who defy the odds.

Yes, but I’ve seen it, and I wouldn’t exactly call it living.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Or for my dad, 100%.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:16% live to one year after diagnosis, 5% make it to 2 years, 1% make it to 5 years. There are always outliers who defy the odds.

Yes, but I’ve seen it, and I wouldn’t exactly call it living.

Why? Are the treatment side effects super bad?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:16% live to one year after diagnosis, 5% make it to 2 years, 1% make it to 5 years. There are always outliers who defy the odds.

Yes, but I’ve seen it, and I wouldn’t exactly call it living.

Why? Are the treatment side effects super bad?

Just the disease is super bad. My dad didn’t eat solid food for 3 months and he was constantly vomiting. Constantly. Like would carry a bucket around with his when he went out. Plus it hurts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:16% live to one year after diagnosis, 5% make it to 2 years, 1% make it to 5 years. There are always outliers who defy the odds.

Yes, but I’ve seen it, and I wouldn’t exactly call it living.

Why? Are the treatment side effects super bad?

My mom had it and died two months after diagnosis. She didn't get treatment because it was futile. She was in excruciating pain in her last weeks. I prayed God would take her.

[Anonymous]

Thought I'd share since it hasn't been posted here. Very sweet and Alex holds it together, as always. Love the comments, he is truly admired.

https://currently.att.yahoo.com/entertainment/alex-trebek-gets-choked-up-following-jeopardy-contestants-answer-050217914.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thought I'd share since it hasn't been posted here. Very sweet and Alex holds it together, as always. Love the comments, he is truly admired.

https://currently.att.yahoo.com/entertainment/alex-trebek-gets-choked-up-following-jeopardy-contestants-answer-050217914.html

Except it was posted:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/839335.page

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:16% live to one year after diagnosis, 5% make it to 2 years, 1% make it to 5 years. There are always outliers who defy the odds.

Yes, but I’ve seen it, and I wouldn’t exactly call it living.

Why? Are the treatment side effects super bad?

My mom had it and died two months after diagnosis. She didn't get treatment because it was futile. She was in excruciating pain in her last weeks. I prayed God would take her.

couldn’t she be sedated?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:16% live to one year after diagnosis, 5% make it to 2 years, 1% make it to 5 years. There are always outliers who defy the odds.

Yes, but I’ve seen it, and I wouldn’t exactly call it living.

I’ve seen it also and you can definitely get some enjoyment out of life post diagnosis, as Alex seems to be doing with the time he has.