The 79-year-old recently shared he might have to leave Jeopardy.
Jeopardy host and general TV icon Alex Trebek revealed in March that he had been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. Since then, Trebek, who has been at the center of the game show since 1984, has been undergoing treatments to"beat the low survival rate statistics," he said. While he's been open about his battle, and his determination to fight the disease, he shared with CTV News on October 4 that he may have to leave Jeopardy due to health complications.
“I’m sure there are observant members of the television audience that notice also, but they’re forgiving,” Trebek said. “But there will come a point when they will no longer be able to say, ‘It’s okay.'" Though he announced that he went into near remission in May, this September he had to undergo another round of treatment after his"numbers went sky high." He told Good Morning America,"I was doing so well. And my numbers went down to the equivalent of a normal human being who does not have pancreatic cancer. So we were all very optimistic."“When it happened early on I was down on myself,” Trebek added.
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